The Colors of Rhetoric in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Harrison, Benjamin S.
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