Cave and Web: Vision and Poetry in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Paul Beekman.
Cave and Web: Vision and Poetry in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 69-82.
- Description
- The theory that "words can reveal to the inner eye of understanding the invisible forms behind visible shapes" is rejected through repeated examples of "the complicity of sight in the tragedy of love."
- Alternative Title
- Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.