Blushing, Paling, Turning Green: Hue and Its Metapoetic Function in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Nyffenegger, Nicole.

Title
Blushing, Paling, Turning Green: Hue and Its Metapoetic Function in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 145-65.

Description
Argues that hue or skin tone "makes skin visible in texts that do not explicitly mention it" and serves to act as an indicator of narrative structure, emotional interactions, and generic conventions of romance in TC.

Alternative Title
Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde