Fortune and the Lady : Machaut, Chaucer and the Intertextual 'Dit'

Description: Summarizes how contemporary intertextual theory complicates traditional notions of source relations. Surveys intertextual relations in Chaucer's works, especially examples where, by failing to "include the conclusion" from his source(s), Chaucer provokes deep engagement from his audience. Machaut's Fortune presents a very complex "palimpsest" for the depiction of Fortune in BD because Chaucer knew and capitalized on Machaut's relations with Boethius and the Roman de la Rose--themselves "inherently unstable" texts. Phillips also draw examples from TC, WBP, and other Chaucerian works.

Chaucer Subjects: Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.; Troilus and Criseyde.; Book of the Duchess.; Wife of Bath and Her Tale.