John Matthews Manly : Some Old Light on Chaucer, Being an Exposition on the 'Abhorrent Doctrine' and the 'More Abhorrent Doctrine'
- Author / Editor
- Wood, Chauncey.
John Matthews Manly : Some Old Light on Chaucer, Being an Exposition on the 'Abhorrent Doctrine' and the 'More Abhorrent Doctrine'
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 15.1: 1-10, 2000.
- Description
- Reconsiders Manly's distinction between the "Abhorrent Doctrine" (that Chaucer, in GP, "merely photographed his friends and acquaintances") and the "More Abhorrent Doctrine" (that Chaucer built his characters by piecing together "scraps from old books, horoscopes, astrological and physiological generalizations"). Both the Wilton Diptych and GP use "representational" and "attributive" techniques to make the conventional, the real, and the imagined "simultaneously accessible."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.