The Aesthetic of Chaucer's Art of Contrast.

Author / Editor
Presson, Robert K.

Title
The Aesthetic of Chaucer's Art of Contrast.

Published
English Miscellany 15 (1964): 9-21.

Description
Surveys Chaucer's uses of thematic and stylistic contrast, antithesis, and contention, treating them not as examples of a divided mind "but rather of a mind most aesthetically aware how best to state what is experienced most intensely." Draws examples from a range of Chaucer's works, CT most extensively.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General