Ratio and Invention: A Study of Medieval Lyric and Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Ratio and Invention: A Study of Medieval Lyric and Narrative
- Published
- Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
- Physical Description
- xxi, 193 pp.
- Description
- Analyzes the intricate relationship among literary theory, poetry, and music, with examples from Chaucer and others--specifically, the "strategies of poetic composition" and the "location of invention within the text"--to produce "a literary reading of medieval criticism and a critical reading of medieval literature."
- See also "Failure of Invention: Chaucer's Squire's Tale."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.