Irony Through Imagery: A Chaucerian Technique Studied in Relation to Sources, Analogues and the Dicta of Medieval Rhetoric.
- Author / Editor
- Richardson, Lilla Janette.
Irony Through Imagery: A Chaucerian Technique Studied in Relation to Sources, Analogues and the Dicta of Medieval Rhetoric.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 24.03 (1963): 1176.
- Physical Description
- Ph. D. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley, 1962.
- Description
- Shows that Chaucer uses "rhetorical figures . . . [to] produce imagery," analyzing the "use of imagery" in FrT, RvT, ShT, MerT, and MilT--in comparison with sources, where available--and focusing on how he uses imagery to create ironic effects not found in his sources or rhetorical theory
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Friar and His Tale
Reeve and His Tal
Shipman and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Miller and His Tale