"The Franklin's Tale" and the Sister Arts.
- Author / Editor
- Brantley, Jessica.
"The Franklin's Tale" and the Sister Arts.
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 139-53.
- Description
- Considers FranT as a commentary on the "sister arts" of poetry and painting, linked in the tale's engagement with rhetoric, to form Chaucer's "theory of the imagetext." Unlike later theorizations that differentiate the visual from the verbal, the thematic construction of FranT--particularly its evocation of artifice in representing the rocks and the garden--reflects a medieval fascination with the "artificiality of all representation."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Visual Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale