Speaking Images in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Mann, Jill.

Title
Speaking Images in Chaucer's '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. 237-54; 3 b&w figs.

Description
Mann explores Nicholas's verbal manipulation of John in MilT, the portrait of Alison, and the body language of the kiss scene (and some analogous fabliaux), arguing that language, imagination, and physical reality are in many ways inseparable or interdependent.

Alternative Title
Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.