The Colors of Rhetoric in Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Harrison, Benjamin S.

Title
The Colors of Rhetoric in Chaucer.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.06 (1966): 1786A

Description
Assesses prior critical treatments of Chaucer's uses of rhetoric and traces a pattern of development from his use of the "conventional methods of expansion and embellishment" of the medieval rhetoricians, through "increasing independence" to "consummate skill." Chaucer's comments on rhetoric in CT are "directed not against medieval rhetoric, but against its misuse." This dissertation was completed in 1932.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General