The Descriptive Art of the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Richardson-Hay, Christine.
The Descriptive Art of the 'General Prologue' to the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 43C.
- Description
- Discusses the artistry of Chaucer's GP portraits: their relationship to contemporary literary expectations and the "conventional medieval portrait," their order, their importance in creating a "sense or 'reality,'" and their "interaction" with subsequent links and tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.