The Soul of Ekphrasis: Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" and the Marriage of the Senses.
- Author / Editor
- Schuerer, Hans Jurgen.
The Soul of Ekphrasis: Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" and the Marriage of the Senses.
- 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. 224-42.
- Description
- Argues that ekphrasis in MerT is an "engagement with the union of language and the inner senses." In particular, examines "ekphrastic moments . . . between physical expression and the psyche" in Chaucer's treatment of marriage in MerT.
- Alternative Title
- Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
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