Chaucer's Measuring Eye

Author / Editor
Holley, Linda Tarte.

Title
Chaucer's Measuring Eye

Published
Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, 1990.

Physical Description
189 pp.

Description
Explores Chaucer's use of "the physics of measurement," an aspect of the science of optics (new in Chaucer's day), which measured "motion and relationships among objects inside a framed space." Chaucer's "verbal structures often move as the eye does." Holley examines Chaucer's "poetics of space" in TC, BD, HF, and several of the CT: KnT, MilT, MLT, SumT, SNT, PhyT, and PardT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Book of the Duchess.
House of Fame.
Knight and His Tale.
Miller and His Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Summoner and His Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Physician and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.