'A Picture of Such Beauty in Their Minds': The Medieval Rhetoricians, Chaucer, and Evocative Effictio
- Author / Editor
- Hass, Robin R.
'A Picture of Such Beauty in Their Minds': The Medieval Rhetoricians, Chaucer, and Evocative Effictio
- Published
- Exemplaria 14: 383-422, 2002.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer and several rhetoricians deliberately construct verbal portraits of the female body and feminize language to engage readers in the pursuit of textual pleasure; this engagement is predicated on a particular way of looking at, defining, and responding to woman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.