'Peynted . . . text and [visual] glose': Primitivism, Ekphrasis, and Pictorial Intertextuality in the Dreamers' Bedrooms of Roman de la Rose and Book of the Duchess

Author / Editor
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.

Title
'Peynted . . . text and [visual] glose': Primitivism, Ekphrasis, and Pictorial Intertextuality in the Dreamers' Bedrooms of Roman de la Rose and Book of the Duchess

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 97-114.

Description
Reads descriptions of the bedchamber in the Roman de la Rose as a source for the bedchamber scene in BD, arguing that Chaucer's "visual/verbal intertextuality" reveals his preference for civilization over primitivism.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.