Preceptive Portraiture: Chaucerian and Spenserian 'Effictio'

Author / Editor
Bice, Deborah Marie.

Title
Preceptive Portraiture: Chaucerian and Spenserian 'Effictio'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 2230A.

Description
Not mere ornament, the "effictio,"or physical and spiritual portrait, had become a fixed literary convention by the time of Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Bice analyzes Chaucerian characters from GP, KnT, NPT, and MilT, as well as from "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Spenser.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Canterbury Tales--General.