Criseyde's Beauty: Chaucer and Aesthetics
- Author / Editor
- Knapp, Peggy A.
Criseyde's Beauty: Chaucer and Aesthetics
- Published
- Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 231-54.
- Description
- Knapp examines how Chaucer makes Criseyde beautiful to his audience (then and now) and how critical readings of her character rely on cultural constructs of aesthetic beauty.
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives on Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.