Chaucer's Chain of LoveThis book traces the thematic and structural implication for Chaucer's poetry of the chain of love between God and his creation, an image used by the Platonist philosophers of Chaucer's day, as well as by the church as a metaphor for God's providential love. As a structural principle, the chain of love is the intermediary between constituents of time, space, and words. |
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Page 19
... shape of Theseus's speech as well as the book which contains it imitates the shape of the world . The source of the chain image and its long history before Chaucer's time are identified succinctly in the notes to any current classroom ...
... shape of Theseus's speech as well as the book which contains it imitates the shape of the world . The source of the chain image and its long history before Chaucer's time are identified succinctly in the notes to any current classroom ...
Page 151
... shape and structure of the Canterbury Tales imitates the triune form figured by Theseus's chain of love . Like the chain's middle reach between invisible perfection and visible corruption , the whole of Chaucer's book has indeterminate ...
... shape and structure of the Canterbury Tales imitates the triune form figured by Theseus's chain of love . Like the chain's middle reach between invisible perfection and visible corruption , the whole of Chaucer's book has indeterminate ...
Page 194
... Shape of Creation , point to mnemonic images of labyrinth and Gothic cathedral , respectively , as models for poetry . D. W. Robertson , Jr. , A Preface to Chaucer , and V. A. Kolve , Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative , demonstrate ...
... Shape of Creation , point to mnemonic images of labyrinth and Gothic cathedral , respectively , as models for poetry . D. W. Robertson , Jr. , A Preface to Chaucer , and V. A. Kolve , Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative , demonstrate ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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