Love and Death: The Function of the Grotesque in the Paintings of Edward Burne-Jones
- Author / Editor
- Miliaras, Barbara.
Love and Death: The Function of the Grotesque in the Paintings of Edward Burne-Jones
- Published
- Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 127-57.
- Description
- Burne-Jones's use of the grotesque was influenced by Chaucer, among others. In KnT, Emelye unwittingly inspires destructive passion in Palamon and Arcite, creating disorder in society and leading to a "grotesque denouement."
- Alternative Title
- Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.