Having a Heatwave? Of Chaucer's Invention of Spring, the Inconveniences of Falling Asleep in the Sun, and Why a Warm Bed's Best for the Winter.
- Author / Editor
- Vial, Claire.
Having a Heatwave? Of Chaucer's Invention of Spring, the Inconveniences of Falling Asleep in the Sun, and Why a Warm Bed's Best for the Winter.
- Published
- Jean-Pierre Naugrette and Catherine Lanone, eds. Le temp qu’il fait dans la littérature et les artes du monde anglophone / What’s the Weather Like in Anglophone Literature and Art (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2020), pp. 57-70.
- Description
- Examines "inner and outer landscapes in relation with the seasons" in three works of medieval literature, including articulation of the aesthetic pleasure evoked at the beginning of GP, effected through Chaucer's thematic range and use of "every single known rhetorical convention of his time regarding spring and the opening of a narrative." Other topics include summer in "Sir Launfal" and winter in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Includes an abstract in French.
- Contributor
- Naugrette, Jean-Pierre, ed.
Lanone, Catherine, ed..
- Alternative Title
- Le temp qu’il fait dans la littérature et les artes du monde anglophone
What’s the Weather Like in Anglophone Literature and Art
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations