Faces in the Crowd: Faciality and Ekphrasis in Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Knapp, Ethan.
Faces in the Crowd: Faciality and Ekphrasis in Late Medieval England.
- 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. 209-23.
- Description
- Explores the "function of faciality" in medieval poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve. Examines Chaucer's portraits of faces in GP, MLT, and TC.
- Alternative Title
- Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Man of Law and His Tale