'Oure Flessh Thou Yaf Us': 'Langour' and Chaucer's Consumption of Dante in the 'Hugelyn'
- Author / Editor
- Spillenger, Paul.
'Oure Flessh Thou Yaf Us': 'Langour' and Chaucer's Consumption of Dante in the 'Hugelyn'
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 103-28.
- Description
- Explicates the Ugolino episode of MkT as an instance of Chaucer's self-consciousness about borrowing from sources, especially Dante. Explores the courtly, Boethian, Boccaccian, and Dantean nuances of "langour" and argues that, as Ugolino passively suffers his role as a cannibal in hell, so Chaucer presents the poet who borrows from others.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Language and Word Studies.