A Consideration of the Thematic Effect of Certain Rhetorical and Realistic Patterns in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Abstract
The history of rhetoric runs its streams down to the very beds of Greek and Roman culture where the disciplined minds of thoughtful men unearthed ideas, linked relationships and formulated principles in wide areas of human knowledge and science, which, though varied and shifting in influence, have, nevertheless, in the course of civilisation, never lost the objective vigor of that first clear current. This paper is not primarily concerned with the movements, stimulating and provocative as they are, of classical rhetoric, but it does propose to investigate the art of Chaucer in certain aspects of the Troilus and Criseyde with particular reference to the fusion of rhetoric and realism in the execution of that art.
Subject Area
British and Irish literature
Recommended Citation
Brosnan, Mary Rose, "A Consideration of the Thematic Effect of Certain Rhetorical and Realistic Patterns in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" (1957). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28622576.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28622576
