The Obscene Poetic Self in Rutebeuf and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Dunton-Downer, Leslie Linam.

Title
The Obscene Poetic Self in Rutebeuf and Chaucer

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1508A.

Description
In contrast with Augustinian models, the poetic use of obscenity provides a nontraditional method of self-definition. For Rutebeuf, the obscene served to establish his own poetic identity; for Chaucer, it provided a means for characters to establish themselves.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.