Seeing Things: Locational Memory in Chaucer's Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
Carruthers, Mary J.

Title
Seeing Things: Locational Memory in Chaucer's Knight's Tale

Published
Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 93-106.

Description
Carruthers explores the role of memory, one of the five divisions of classical rhetoric, in composing and understanding medieval poetry. Works such as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Chaucer's KnT are "memory-friendly" because images associated with well-defined places help both poet and audience construct a mental diagram of the poem.

Alternative Title
Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.