Chaucer's "Squire's Tale" and the Uses of Rhetoric.
- Author / Editor
- Haller, Robert S.
Chaucer's "Squire's Tale" and the Uses of Rhetoric.
- Published
- Modern Philology 62 (1965): 285-95.
- Description
- Argues that SqT is a "rhetorical satire" of the Squire; attributes the excesses of the Tale to the teller's youthful "defective knowledge" of rhetorical arts and argues that it is Chaucer's means of critiquing the "pseudo-genre of romance" and mistaken notions of gentility. Includes comparisons of SqT and KnT and assessment of the Franklin's response to SqT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale