| Poetry and Authority: Chaucer, Vernacular Fable and the Role of Readers in Fifteenth-Century England Contributor(s): Real, Hermann Josef (Other), Nisters, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631761139 ISBN-13: 9783631761137 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $66.33 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Greek (modern) - Foreign Language Study | Italian - Foreign Language Study | Latin |
| Series: Muensteraner Monographien Zur Englischen Literatur / Muenste |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.00 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis of a close reading of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale and Manciple's Tale, the book analyses how the concept of textual authority came to be both challenged and vindicated in the face of the growing importance of an empowered vernacular readership. Thus, the fables of John Lydgate and the presentation of Chaucer's texts in some of the earliest printed editions of the Canterbury Tales indicate the development of a Chaucerian poetics that was grounded in Chaucer's own critical reflection on the scholastic account of poetic fiction. |