Pseudo-Autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz, Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, and Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- De Looze, Laurence.
Pseudo-Autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz, Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, and Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
- Physical Description
- xii, 211 pp.
- Description
- Defines a genre that "plays with questions of truth, authority, and the relationship between the life 'in' a book and life 'outside' a book," a genre that both asserts autobiographical verity and calls "into question the possibility that the (implied) author can know himself or his own story correctly."
- De Looze explores roots of the genre in Augustine, Boethius, Dante, and the "Roman de la Rose" and examines more particularly Ruiz's "El libro de buen amor," various works by Machaut and Froissart, and CT. Ret plays a crucial role in compelling readers to wonder whether "to believe Chaucer about Chaucer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Retraction.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.