Poetry of Authority and the Authority of Poetry in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Lomperis, Linda Susan.

Title
Poetry of Authority and the Authority of Poetry in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 2688A.

Description
CT is read as an experiment in allegory in the sense of Isidore of Seville's "alieniloquium." The School of Chartres, the "Cosmographia" of Bernardus Silvestris, and Guillaume de Lorris contribute to the techniques of tension between rhetoric and theology in CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.