Background
Kolve, V. A. was born on January 18, 1934 in Taylor, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Amos and Gunda (Lien) Kolve.
( Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions...)
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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Kolve, V. A. was born on January 18, 1934 in Taylor, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Amos and Gunda (Lien) Kolve.
Bachelor, University of Wisconsin, 1955; Bachelor with honors, University of Oxford, 1957; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1962; D Philosophy, University of Oxford, 1962.
From assistant professor to associate Professor of English, Stanford (California) U., 1962-1969; Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1969-1978; Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1979-1986; department chairman English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1979-1981; Foundation Professor of English, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1986. Guggenheim Foundation educational advisory board, since 1988. The Alexander Lectures, U. Toronto, 1993, The Clark Lectures, Cambridge U., 1994.
( Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions...)
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1st lieutenant United States Army, 1959. Fellow Medieval Academy American (president 1992), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Modern Language Association (chair executive committee Chaucer division 1973-1977, 86-90, James Russell Lowell prize 1985), New Chaucer Society (trustee 1988-1992, president 1994-1996), Early English Text Society, American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa.