Word and Image in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Daróczy, Anikó.

Title
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