The 'Manciple's Tale' and Chaucer's Apolline Poetics
- Author / Editor
- Striar, Brian.
The 'Manciple's Tale' and Chaucer's Apolline Poetics
- Published
- Criticism 33 (1991): 173-204.
- Description
- ManT expresses ambivalence about verbal signification and asserts the power of poetry. The role of Phoebus (a figure of poetry), imagery of caging, the figure of the crow, and violations of poetic decorum affirm humanist poetics, despite the instability of language and art. The article also assesses the view of poetry in HF, LGW, and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Chaucer's Retraction.