The Sources Of Chaucers Poetics

Download or read book The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics written by Amanda Holton and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with textual sources. Reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales against their classical and continental sources, Holton illuminates Chaucer's poetic style, showing he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources.