The Mapping of Rhetorical Strategies Related to Persuasion in Middle English Religious Prose.

Author / Editor
Yoshikawa, Fumiko.

Title
The Mapping of Rhetorical Strategies Related to Persuasion in Middle English Religious Prose.

Published
Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 343-60.

Description
Studies the generic variety, rhetorical features, and persuasive power of four works of medieval English literature, including ParsT, tabulating the relative incidences of rhetorical questions, appeals to authority or logic, poetic devices, vocatives, humor, personal pronouns, etc.

Alternative Title
Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale
Style and Versification