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Rhetorical Ductus in Chaucerian Ekphrasis
Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 4-11-2016 12:00 AM Rhetorical Ductus in Chaucerian Ekphrasis Emily Laura Pez The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Richard Moll The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in English A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Emily Laura Pez 2016 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Recommended Citation Pez, Emily Laura, "Rhetorical Ductus in Chaucerian Ekphrasis" (2016). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 3656. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3656 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Abstract My thesis investigates how the rhetorical device of ekphrasis functions in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ekphrasis, as a detailed description of a work of visual art, figures prominently in Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame, and The Knight’s Tale. Drawing upon the theories of the medieval arts of memory and particularly the work of Mary Carruthers on this subject, my thesis argues that Chaucer’s ekphrases incorporate memory techniques, which connect the ekphrases integrally to the texts in which they are found. Chaucer’s early uses of ekphrasis in The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Fowls guide the audience’s interpretation and therefore contribute to the ductus, defined by Carruthers as the text’s “overall direction” (“Concept” 196). -
The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: LANGUAGE THEORY, MYTHOLOGY, and FICTION
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Chaucer and the Theme of Mutability. Joseph John Mogan Jr Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1961 Chaucer and the Theme of Mutability. Joseph John Mogan Jr Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Mogan, Joseph John Jr, "Chaucer and the Theme of Mutability." (1961). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 697. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/697 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This dissertation has been 62—54 microfilmed exactly as received MOGAN, Jr.f Joseph John, 1924- CHAUCER AND THE THEME OF MUTABILITY. Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1961 Language and Literature, modern University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan CHAUCER AND THE THEME OF MUTABILITY A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Joseph John Mogan, Jr. B.A., St. Mary's University, 1946 M.A., Notre Dame University, 1954 August, 1961 ACKNOWLEDGMENT It is with gratitude that I express my indebtedness to Dr. Thomas A. Kirby for supervising this study through to its completion; and for his many helps and suggestions throughout most of my graduate training which "shul not here be told for me." TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT ...................................... -
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