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Linda Tarte Holley.
Chaucer’s Measuring Eye.

Publisher Houston: Rice U.P., 1990.
ISBN 0892632747.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 143x236x21mm.
Page count: 189pp inc. 8 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has no dustjacket; may have some marking internally.


This item £6.00
P&P inc.
within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher is now defunct]
Weight without packaging: 475g.

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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.

Illustrations: 8, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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