'Thanne Motyn We to Bokys' : Writing's Harvest in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Kimmelman, Burt.
'Thanne Motyn We to Bokys' : Writing's Harvest in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
- Published
- Journal of the Early Book Society 3: 1-35, 2000.
- Description
- Differences between the F and G versions of LGWP include increased concern in the latter with aurality, with the metaphor of harvest as an epistemological figure and an "ars poetica," and with the boundaries between orality and literacy, Latin and vernacular, text and meaning, and related concerns reflected in Lollard and Ockhamist writing. Kimmelman corroborates traditional arguments that the G version is Chaucer's revision.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.