Chaucer’s Measuring Eye by Linda Tarte Holley (original) (raw)

Linda Tarte Holley's work explores the influence of thirteenth-century perspectivists on Chaucer's narrative style, arguing that Chaucer's visual aptitude is linked to his geometric sensibility. However, critiques highlight the speculative nature of her claims regarding Chaucer's exposure to these ideas, suggesting a conflation between pictorial representation in art and narrative structure in poetry. Holley's discussion posits that Chaucer's poetry embodies a measuring of perspective influenced by the scientific and theological contexts of medieval optics, yet lacks concrete textual evidence to support her historical arguments.