Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages.
- Author / Editor
- Copeland, Rita.
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages.
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 415 pp.
- Series
- Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Description
- Explores emotion as a device of rhetoric from Antiquity through the fifteenth century, and describes the influence of Aristotle's "Rhetoric" on political, ethical, and literary discourse from the thirteenth century forward. Assesses a wide range of texts, including discussions of rhetorical handbooks, style, and emotion in Chaucer generally, and of “enthymematic oratory” in KnT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Style and Versification
Knight and His Tale