Word and Image in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Daróczy, Anikó.
Word and Image in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- AnaChronisT [1] (1995): 1-27
- Description
- Daróczy outlines the Latin rhetorical tradition as background to Chaucer's techniques of characterization in GP: groupings of pilgrims, omitted details, the order and juxtaposition of the portraits, epithets, and summarizing lines. Emphasizes musical devices and parallels from fine arts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales