(Im)materiality and Chaucer's Temple of Mars.

Description: Explores "inversions of the material and the immaterial" in the description of the temple of Mars in KnT, describing how the narrator of the description is both "subjectless and immaterial," and investigating "how we think about what we imagine we know." Differing from its source in Boccaccio, Chaucer's version is rife with synaesthesia, nested ekphrases, "unanchored physical details," and near-allegorical devices that evoke questions about the nature of thought, interpretation, and human agency.

Chaucer Subjects: Knight and His Tale
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations