The Heart and the Chain
- Author / Editor
- Leyerle, John.
The Heart and the Chain
- Published
- Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 113-45.
- Description
- Examines "heart" (in its several meanings) as the nucleus of BD, and "prison"/"chain" as one in KnT, treating each as a structuring device and a wellspring of the themes and imagery in its respective narrative. Similar nuclei function comically in MilT (holes) and PF (place). In TC "heart" and "bond" are paired nuclei, i.e., organizing metaphors for love and order.
- Alternative Title
- Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Knight and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Miller and His Tale
- Parliament of Fowls
- Language and Word Studies