Presenting Chaucer as Author

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph, III.

Title
Presenting Chaucer as Author

Published
Tim William Machan, ed. Medieval Literature: Texts and Interpretation. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies,no. 79. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1991), pp. 17-39.

Description
English respect for vernacular authors anticipates the Renaissance. Chaucer created for our language and its heritage a conception of culturally significant authority based on textual correctness. More than other Middle English poets, Chaucer asserts the value of the author's ipsissima verba in CT.

Alternative Title
Medieval Literature: Texts and Interpretation.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.