Crying, Moving, and Keeping It Whole: What Makes Literary Description Vivid?

Author / Editor
Jajdelska, Elspeth, Chris Butler, Steve Kelly, Allan McNeill, and Katie Over.

Title
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
Style and Versification