Speaking Images: Iconographic Criticism and Chaucerian Ekphrasis.

Author / Editor
Bowers, John M.

Title
Speaking Images: Iconographic Criticism and Chaucerian Ekphrasis.

Published
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 55–76.

Description
Explores Chaucer's uses of ekphrasis as "expressions of an increasingly anxious desire to allow literary images to speak for themselves" in KnT, BD, and HF.

Alternative Title
Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Knight and His Tale