Apostrophe, Devotion, and Anti-Semitism: Rhetorical Community in the "Prioress's Prologue and Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Fenn, Jessica.
Apostrophe, Devotion, and Anti-Semitism: Rhetorical Community in the "Prioress's Prologue and Tale."
- Published
- Studies in Philology 110.3 (2013): 432-58.
- Description
- Considers "shared speech" to be a theme and a device in PrPT, focusing on apostrophe, prayer, Christian devotion, and anti-Semitic sentiment as means to and expressions of rhetorical community. Describes the place of apostrophe in medieval rhetorical theory, and argues that PrT "illustrates the potential dangers" posed by excited, pathos-ridden recitation of shared communal values, whether expressed orally or in writing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale