Irony Through Imagery: A Chaucerian Technique Studied in Relation to Sources, Analogues and the Dicta of Medieval Rhetoric.

Author / Editor
Richardson, Lilla Janette.

Title
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