Crying, Moving, and Keeping It Whole: What Makes Literary Description Vivid?
- Author / Editor
- Jajdelska, Elspeth, Chris Butler, Steve Kelly, Allan McNeill, and Katie Over.
Crying, Moving, and Keeping It Whole: What Makes Literary Description Vivid?
- Published
- Poetics Today 31 (2010): 433-63.
- Description
- Includes comments on the "feature-by-feature account" of the Prioress's face in GP 1.151-56, and suggests that "a description of this kind is less likely to produce a vivid response than one that relates the features to one another."
- Contributor
- Butler, Chris.
Kelly, Steve.
McNeill, Allan.
Over, Katie.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
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