Faces in the Crowd: Faciality and Ekphrasis in Late Medieval England.

Author / Editor
Knapp, Ethan.

Title
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