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Linda
Tarte Holley.
Chaucer's
Measuring Eye.
Houston: Rice
U.P., 1990.
ISBN
0892632747.
Hardback,
stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
143x236x21mm.
189pp inc. 8
monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Good to very good
condition.
This
item £6.50
[Publisher
is now defunct]
475g.
How to order this book
Argues that
an awareness of the emerging science of optics affected the strategies
behind Chaucer's writings. Contents:
Taking the measure of things; The engendering image - visual &
verbal art of framed motion; Borders of narrative; Seeing inside the
dream vision; Epilogue.
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes
See also: | Chaucer |
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