The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Obermeier, Anita.
The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages
- Published
- Amsterdam and Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi, 1999.
- Physical Description
- 314 pp.
- Series
- Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, no. 32.
- Description
- Surveys authorial apologies in literature from the classical period to the late Middle Ages, discussing classical tradition, Christian tradition, medieval Latin tradition, and medieval vernacular literatures, including German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish. Includes a section on women writers in the Middle Ages. The section on Chaucer explores how he uses apology to justify his writings and place them into tradition, disclaiming and simultaneously asserting his uses of pagan material, sexuality, and blunt language. Discusses Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women Prologue, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, and The Canterbury Tales, especially Chaucer's Retraction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Chaucer's Retraction.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.