Neoplatonic Theodicy in Chaucer's "Legend of Philomela."
- Author / Editor
- Schrock, Chad.
Neoplatonic Theodicy in Chaucer's "Legend of Philomela."
- Published
- Studies in Philology 108 (2011): 27-43.
- Description
- Assesses how the invocation to the "yevere of the formes" (2228ff.) that opens the "Legend of Philomela" in LGW contributes to the "primary rhetorical effect" of the legend, i.e.,"secondary pathos." As an appeal to an absent god, the invocation, like the legend itself, evokes "ineffectual sympathy" for the female protagonists and "outrage against the men, gods, and universe that would not respond."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women