Rhetoric and Meaning in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Harrington, David V.
Rhetoric and Meaning in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 3, supplement (1967): 71-79.
- Description
- Explores rhetorical devices in KnT, and suggests that "analysis of its rhetoric" reveals that the poem is "organized" as a "demande d'amour," identifying how Chaucer adjusted the rhetoric of his source, Boccaccio's "Teseida."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations