Playing Parts : Fragments, Figures and the Mystery of Love in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Barbara.
Playing Parts : Fragments, Figures and the Mystery of Love in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Published
- R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 255-99; 8 color figs.
- Description
- "In-etched" reminiscences of the Annunciation strain against the dominant sexuality of MilT, simultaneously suggesting and denying the metonymic and synecdochaic relations between divine and earthly love. Nolan cites analogous examples of spiritual/sexual continuity from visual tradition, Boccaccio's "Decameron" 4.2, "Gilote et Johane," mystery plays of the Annunciation, and a bawdy thirteenth-century French "Ars amatoria" by Guiart.
- Alternative Title
- Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.