Chaucer's Art of Portraiture: Subject, Author and Reader
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Claire.
Chaucer's Art of Portraiture: Subject, Author and Reader
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 72-80.
- Description
- Gauges how subject, author, and reader "interact with varying degrees of subtlety in the GP descriptions of the pilgrims: the "snapshot" (Yeoman), idealization (Parson), caricature (Summoner), balance between ideal and caricature (Wife of Bath), and descriptions inflected by the narrator's naivety (Guildsmen) or irony (Prioress).
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Parson and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale