Gothic Folds in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Yamaguchi, Eriko.
Gothic Folds in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Eigo Seinen 146.8: 502-04, 2000.
- Description
- Analyzes three types of pleats or folds in CT: graceful or classical drapings of the cloak of the Prioress; artificial folds "pynched" on her wimple, characteristic of Gothic art; and "wyndynge," which the Parson reproaches as a waste of cloth and which anticipates Baroque fashion.
- Alternative Title
- "Sen no keiren: Chōsā no kabe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.