The Picture in the Text: Ecphrasis as Self-Reflectivity in Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowles,' 'Book of the Duchess' and 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Bridges, Margaret.

Title
The Picture in the Text: Ecphrasis as Self-Reflectivity in Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowles,' 'Book of the Duchess' and 'House of Fame'

Published
Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 5 (1989): 151-58.

Description
In PF, BD, and HF, descriptions of mural paintings serve a common function: Chaucer endows the visual artifact with the status of a narrative fiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.
Book of the Duchess.
House of Fame.