Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: Rhetoric and Emotion.

Author / Editor
Harrington, David V.

Title
Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: Rhetoric and Emotion.

Published
Moderna Språch 61 (1967): 353-62.

Description
Resists impulses to denigrate the artistry of MLT and argues that the rhetorical passages--including several of the narrator's apostrophes--achieve "genuinely intense emotion" rather than mere sentimentality.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Style and Versification