Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity

Author / Editor
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.

Title
Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity

Published
Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997.

Physical Description
x, 136 pp.

Series
Confronti Letterari, no. 10.

Description
Four essays by Pizzorno on Chaucer's epistemological uses of metaphor, exempla, and allegory, with an appendix (pp. 111-31) on figurative thinking in classical and medieval tradition and in modern theory. Chapter one (pp. 5-29) was previously published; see "Chauntecleer's Bad Latin." For the other three essays, search for Metaphor at Play under Alternative Title.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism