If a Trope Looks like a Trope: The Ape Metaphor in Middle English Texts

Author / Editor
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.

Title
If a Trope Looks like a Trope: The Ape Metaphor in Middle English Texts

Published
Allegorica 16 (1995): 3-16.

Description
Explores how Chaucer capitalized on extrinsic and intrinsic connotations in his ape metaphors. Kelly provides backgrounds to the metaphors from other medieval texts and, following Michael Riffaterre, theorizes about how such metaphors can operate in nonallusive ways.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.