A Parlor Game for Teaching Imagery

Author / Editor
Graybill, Robert V.

Title
A Parlor Game for Teaching Imagery

Published
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 5.2 (1997): 41-49.

Description
Comments on selected images in "Beowulf," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and MilT, where the "imagery of holiness" can be seen to align Nicholas and Alisoun's love-making with divine pattern. Also includes a classroom exercise to sensitize students to imagery.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Style and Versification