Retórica forense y literatura: El "orator perfectus" y la obra literaria como instrumento de defensa jurídica.

Author / Editor
Hoces Lomba, María de.

Title
Retórica forense y literatura: El "orator perfectus" y la obra literaria como instrumento de defensa jurídica.

Published
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Universitat d’Alacant/Universidad de Alicante, 2019). Available at https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/95549/1/
tesis_maria_de_hoces_lomba.pdf (accessed June 4, 2023).

Physical Description
254 pp.

Description
Explores general connections between literature and law, with specific reference to Purse. Claims that Chaucer's understanding of "classics, rhetoric, and law” sets up Purse as a "literary defense or vindication" and uses "love poetry" to create a lighter tone.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint of Chaucer to His Puirse