Chaucer at the Edge: Middle English and the Rhetorical Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Chaucer at the Edge: Middle English and the Rhetorical Tradition.
- Published
- Marginalia 19 (2015): 4–15.
- Description
- Plenary lecture positions Chaucer as important to sixteenth-century writers for his incorporation of the Latin rhetorical tradition—particularly the concepts of decorum and Augustine's three levels of style—into English, even as he does so with colorful parody and vernacular panache.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification