'And countrefete the speche of every man / He koude, whan he sholde telle a tale' : Toward a Lapsarian Poetics for The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
'And countrefete the speche of every man / He koude, whan he sholde telle a tale' : Toward a Lapsarian Poetics for The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 29-58, 1999.
- Description
- Assesses how MLH and MLP reflect the anxiety of Chaucer's poetics-how they indicate Chaucer's awareness that he is both following and improving upon the poetic model of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and the "penitential" poetics of John Gower's works. Chaucer appropriates Gower's confessional mode in ParsT, while WBP and PardP combat traditional discourse by being "lapsarian" confessions.
- Alternative Title
- Biennial Chaucer Lecture, the New Chaucer Society. Eleventh International Congress, 17-20 July 1998, UniversiteĢ de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.