Rhetoric and the Unstable World.
- Author / Editor
- Dobyns, Ann.
Rhetoric and the Unstable World.
- Published
- Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaśčáková, eds. Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 226-42.
- Description
- Explores similarities between ambiguity and rhetorical invention in rhetorical tradition from Plato to the twenty-first century. Then discusses three examples of "conscious exploitation of the potential of ambiguity": "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," CT, and a speech by Barak Obama ("A More Perfect Union")--all of which present material that "allows audiences to make choices." Comments on Chaucer's uses of "controversia" (ambiguity), generic hybridity, and rhetorical questions to compel ethical choices.
- Contributor
- Kathleen Dubs, ed.
Janka Kaśčáková, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
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