Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Kolve, V. A.
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.