Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination.
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Isabel.
Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination.
- Published
- Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 99-118.
- Description
- Considers "the special use that medieval writers made of skin as a metaphor for time," focusing on the "structural patterns" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and WBP--"suspension, cessation, and repetition"--and how these patterns "imitate the forms of stretched, broken, or wrinkled skin." Also assesses how meetings between "old and young people, in these texts," can be "read allegorically . . . for the synchronicity of the past and the present."
- Contributor
- Walter, Katie L., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale