Telling Images

V. A. Kolve

Published by Stanford University Press 2009

Telling Images

Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II

V. A. Kolve

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503626430

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Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions in Geoffrey Chaucer's major poetry and their relationship to the visual culture of his time. With more than 150 illustrations, it continues an inquiry begun in the author's prize-winning study, Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales. Here, intensive readings of Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and four more Canterbury Tales focus once again on imagery created by narrative itself—not on passing metaphors or similes, but on the images we create in our minds as we imagine the action of a story. Their suggestive likeness to images embedded in yet other texts, realized in illuminated manuscripts and other visual arts of the age, is shown to ground and enrich our reading of these poems.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
Notes to the Reader Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxiii
I. Looking at the Sun in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. From Cleopatra to Alceste: An Iconographic of The Legend of Good Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
III. Man in the Middle: Art and Religion in The Friar's Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
IV. Of Calendars and Cuckoldry (I): January and May in The Merchant’s Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
V. Of Calendars and Cuckoldry (2): The Sun in Gemini and The Merchant's Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
VI. Rocky Shores and Pleasure Gardens: Poetry Versus Magic in The Franklin’s Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
VII. The Second Nun’s Tale and the Iconography of St. Cecilia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
VIII. God-Denying Fools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Illustration Sources and Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Other: 160 illustrations

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Published: January 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781503626430