Interpretation of Genre and by Genre in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Interpretation of Genre and by Genre in the Middle Ages
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Interpretation: Medieval and Modern (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 107-22.
- Description
- Chaucer had a rare sense of genre for a medieval writer. Not only was he "one of a small number of generic innovators," but he also reinterpreted and practiced genres and had a "following of practitioners." Kelly surveys Chaucer's use of genre terms as part of a broader survey including writers such as Albertino Mussato of Padua, Dante, and Boccaccio.
- Alternative Title
- Interpretation: Medieval and Modern.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.