Chaucer's Portrait Technique and the Dream Vision Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Badendyck, J. Lawrence.
Chaucer's Portrait Technique and the Dream Vision Tradition
- Published
- English Record 21 (1970): 113-25.
- Description
- Challenges the notion that the descriptions of the pilgrims in GP are drawn from real-life models and compares and contrasts Chaucer's techniques with those of Guillaume de Lorris in "Roman de la Rose" and William Langland's in "Piers Plowman." Suggests that Chaucer's descriptions gain depth and dimension because he makes us "envision them as having an existence that extends beyond the present time and place." Addresses the descriptions of the Knight, Squire, and Shipman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Knight and His Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale