The Jongleur, the Copyist, and the Printer : The Tradition of Chaucer's 'Words unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn'
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, John.
The Jongleur, the Copyist, and the Printer : The Tradition of Chaucer's 'Words unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn'
- Published
- Keith Busby and Erik Kooper, eds. "Courtly Liberature: Culture and Context" (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990), pp. 499-508.
- Description
- Much of the scholarship on Chaucer's "Adam" has focused on identification. But "many of Chaucer's shorter poems are genre pieces in which personal statement emerges by way of a treatment of conventional matters; a traditional type of poem is invested with particular significance." "Adam" is a complaint by a creative literary artist against the transmitter of his art.
- Reprinted in Scattergood's Manuscripts and Ghosts: Essays on the Transmission of Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).
- Contributor
- Busby, Keith,
- Kooper, Eriked.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Courtly Liberature: Culture and Context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Adam Scriveyn.