Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Kolve, V. A.

Title
Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales

Published
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Description
Juxtaposes "visual materials and their literary analogues" to illuminate larger images created by narrative action. Seven chapters treat medieval hypotheses of audience and image; Chaucerian aesthetics of the image in the poem; KnT, the prison-garden, and the tournament amphitheater; nature, youth, and Noah's Flood in MilT; Death-as-Tapster and horse unbridled in RvP, RvT; CkT and MLH as crossing the Hengwrt-Ellesmere gap; and the rudderless ship and the sea in MLT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Knight and His Tale.
Miller and His Tale.
Reeve and His Tale.
Cook and His Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.