Terpsichorean Form: Geoffrey Chaucer's "Franklin’s Tale" and Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty."

Author / Editor
Chaganti, Seeta.

Title
Terpsichorean Form: Geoffrey Chaucer's "Franklin’s Tale" and Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty."

Published
Robert John Meyer-Lee and Catherine Sanok, eds. The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 185-211.

Description
Contemplates relations among time, seriality, causality, movement, and dancing, exploring the experiences of moving through Robert Smithson's monumental contemporary sculpture "Spiral Jetty" and watching a film of the experience as analogues to the experiences of medieval dance and references to dancing in FranT, where style and syntax evoke kinetic participation and destabilize connections between movement in time and causation, challenging modern notions of literary form. Includes four b&w illustrations.

Alternative Title
The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Style and Versification