Scott and Chaucer: Ekphrasis, Politics, and the Past in 'The Antiquary'
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Helen.
Scott and Chaucer: Ekphrasis, Politics, and the Past in 'The Antiquary'
- Published
- Poetica (Tokyo) 61 (2004): 25-42
- Description
- Explores Sir Walter Scott's knowledge of Chaucer and the novelist's use of themes and techniques reminiscent of those in BD and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Alluding to these works in "The Antiquary," Scott emphasizes their concerns with gender and feudalism and imitates such devices as juxtaposition, ekphrasis, genre shift, and insertion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.