Glossing as a Mode of Literary Production: Post-Modernism in the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Watts, William.

Title
Glossing as a Mode of Literary Production: Post-Modernism in the Middle Ages

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 8: 59-66, 1991.

Description
Explores Chaucer's uses of the word "gloss" to argue that he followed the model of the Roman de la Rose and included glosses in his own texts-marginal glosses at times, but also glosses incorporated into his texts to guide interpretation. Draws examples from a variety of Chaucer's works.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.