The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona

Author / Editor
Kimmelman, Burt.

Title
The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona

Published
New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Physical Description
288 pp.

Series
Studies in the Humanities--Politics--Society, no. 21

Description
Explores the emergence of the modern, first-person persona as manifested in autocitation. Assessing the influence of Augustine, Anselm, Ockham, and others, Kimmelman traces the development of autocitation in the works of Guillem IX, Marcabru, and Dante, focusing primarily on Langland and Chaucer. Kimmelman studies Chaucer's persona most closely in LGWP but also comments on PF, TC, ClT, Ret, and CT.
A revision of Kimmelman's dissertation. See Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 1741A

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Parliament of Fowls.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Clerk and His Tale.
Chaucer's Retraction.