"Ekphrasis" as Aesthetic Pilgrimage in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- McKinley, Kathryn.
"Ekphrasis" as Aesthetic Pilgrimage in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Nino Zchomelidse and Giovanni Freni, eds. Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art (Princeton, N.J.: Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University, 2011), pp. 215-32.
- Description
- Reads the description of the temple of Venus in HF in light of its literary sources and late medieval church ambulation, investigating how ideas of physical, aesthetic, and spiritual motion underlie the narrator's moving gaze. Includes five b&w illustrations.
- Contributor
- Nino Zchomelidse, ed.
Giovanni Freni, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations