Looking at Faces: Geoffrey Chaucer, Hilary Mantel, and Alexis Wright.
- Author / Editor
- Trigg, Stephanie.
Looking at Faces: Geoffrey Chaucer, Hilary Mantel, and Alexis Wright.
- Published
- Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 31-48.
- Description
- Outlines various "cognitive and sensual contexts" that frame "face-gazing in literature" and analyzes the descriptions of male gaze at female faces in TC and BD, both "mediated by the complex ideology of courtly love," comparing them with discussion of the Holbein portrait of Cromwell in Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and the black swan's "transhuman, impersonal, and spiritual" gaze of an Australian Indigenous human in Wright's "The
Swan Book."
- Alternative Title
- Literature and the Senses
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boof of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde