ABSTRACT
This volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. Ten original essays examine the ways in which contemporary readers and scholars might employ rhetorical theory to illuminate underlying meanings in medieval texts. The contributors also explore how rhetoric was used as a means of textual innovation in the work of medieval authors such as Chaucer and his contemporaries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
The Medieval Art of Poetry and Prose: The Scope of Instruction and the Uses of Models
The Scope of Instruction and the Uses of Models Douglas Kelly
chapter 3|22 pages
On the Usefulness and Use Value of Books: A Medieval and Modern Inquiry
A Medieval and Modern Inquiry Ann W. Astell
chapter 7|20 pages
Advice without Consent in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales
Marc Guidry
chapter 8|14 pages
The Traces of Invention: Phatic Rhetoric, Anthology, and Intertextuality in Sir Gawain and
Phatic Rhetoric, Anthology, Intertextuality in Sir Gawain and Melissa Putman Sprenkle
chapter 9|56 pages
“The Word Was Made Flesh”: Gendered Bodies and Anti-Bodies in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Arts of Poetry
Gendered Bodies and Anti-Bodies in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Arts of Poetry Robin Hass Birky
chapter 10|30 pages
Unwritten between the Lines: The Unspoken History of Rhetoric
The Unspoken History of Rhetoric Scott D. Troyan
