Architectonic Allusions: Gothic Perspectives and Perimeters as an Approach to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Lloyd-Kimbrel, Elizabeth D.

Title
Architectonic Allusions: Gothic Perspectives and Perimeters as an Approach to Chaucer

Published
Mediaevistik 1 (1988): 115-24.

Description
Discusses the "Gothic" aesthetics of Chaucer's work: duality, complexity, progression, juxtaposition of jarringly opposite elements, exposure of structural features, audience participation, incompleteness, ambiguity, and physicality of thought.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.