Illusion and Aspect in the Construction of the Face: Chaucerian Individuals, Chaucerian Types.
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Maura.
Illusion and Aspect in the Construction of the Face: Chaucerian Individuals, Chaucerian Types.
- Published
- Robert John Meyer-Lee and Catherine Sanok, eds. The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 213-41.
- Description
- Explores individuality in visual and verbal portraiture, arguing that facial expressions or movements in art--i.e., "the extent to which a given image evokes or represents movement”--are the basis of perceptions of individuality in portraits. Analyzes and compares the portrait "Jehan roi de France" (c. 1350) and Nicole Eisenman's "Portrait of a Guy Smoking" (2007), using humoral and affective physiognomies as well as modern emotional theories, and applies similar analysis to facial affect in TC, including Criseyde's joined brows.
- Alternative Title
- The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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