Rocky Shores and Pleasure Gardens: Poetry vs. Magic in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kolve, V. A.
Rocky Shores and Pleasure Gardens: Poetry vs. Magic in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 165-95.
- Description
- An illustrated analysis of moral and aesthetic issues raised by Chaucer. The rocks, garden, and study that form the loci of FranT carry iconographic meaning suggesting a true poetics of illusion.
- Alternative Title
- Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.