The Golden Mirror: Studies in Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background.
- Author / Editor
- Schaar, Claes.
The Golden Mirror: Studies in Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background.
- Published
- Lund: Gleerup, 1955. Rpt. 1967, with an Index.
- Physical Description
- viii, 526, 16 pp.
- Series
- Acta Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis, no 54.
- Description
- Introduces the conventions of "impersonal" style based in classical rhetoric and developed in medieval rhetorical handbooks Then anatomizes the characteristics of Chaucer's descriptive techniques in relation to his "predecessors and contemporaries," assessing examples and trends throughout Chaucer's corpus of his descriptions of emotions, verbal portraits, and landscapes, with attention to structure, rhetoric, diction, and style, providing backgrounds and sources and analogues from classical, Continental, and English medieval literatures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations