Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity
- Author / Editor
- Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
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