Stylized Man: The Poetic Use of Physiognomy in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Hanson, Thomas B.

Title
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