Chaucerian 'Rekenynges': Modeling Authority
- Author / Editor
- Allman, Wendy West.
Chaucerian 'Rekenynges': Modeling Authority
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2642A.
- Description
- Chaucer's uses of political discourse intersect with his concerns about poetic authority. In PF, "commune profyt" represents both an equivocal political ideal and an idealized community of readers. In KnT, just as Theseus aestheticizes his reign, the narrator casts his narrative as a foundation myth. ClT comments on political tyranny and the tyranny of poetic authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.