Subtlety in Chaucer's expression--a dual view
- Author / Editor
- Kanno, Masahiko.
Subtlety in Chaucer's expression--a dual view
- Published
- Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 29 (1979): 54-68.
- Description
- The simile applied to the Friar--"His nekke 'whit' was 'as the flour-de-lys'"--functions externally and internally. The outward sign of his neck is symbolic of his inner degraded state of mind, which shows physiognomically a mark of licentiousness or depravity.
- Reprinted in Kanno's Studies in Chaucer's Words Tokyo: Eihosha, 1996), pp. 3-13.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.