Stylized Man: The Poetic Use of Physiognomy in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Hanson, Thomas B.
Stylized Man: The Poetic Use of Physiognomy in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- DAI 31.03 (1970): 1278A.
- Description
- Describes Chaucer's uses of physiognomic details in GP, PardPT, KnT, RvT, WBP, Th, and NPT, arguing that while he used such details for imagery he "only rarely relies on physiognomy alone to delineate character."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas