The Transmutation of Chaucer's Color Expressions

Author / Editor
Yoshimura, Koji.

Title
The Transmutation of Chaucer's Color Expressions

Published
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 136 (1990): 118-22.

Description
Examines Chaucer's various uses of color expressions: metaphorical, contrastive, mixed, etc. Yoshimura argues that there is a gradual transmutation from simplicity to complexity in Chaucer's use of such expressions.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.