"I moot speke as I kan": The Squire's Optimistic Attempt to Circumvent Rhetorical "Following" in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Bennett, Kristen Abbott.

Title
"I moot speke as I kan": The Squire's Optimistic Attempt to Circumvent Rhetorical "Following" in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
This Rough Magic 2.2 (2011): 1-24.

Description
Contends that the SqT explores "rhetorical imitation" as a means to confront the postlapsarian "fallen" nature of language, "multiplying the rhetorical conventions 'imitatio,' inexpressibility, and 'translatio'" in order to "probe the idea of poetic origin in the context of vernacular poetry." Engaging KnT, Anel, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and deploying translatory objects (especially the ring), SqT considers relations among art, nature, and literary tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Anelida and Arcite
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations