Books and Authority
- Author / Editor
- Yeager, R. F.
Books and Authority
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 51-67.
- Description
- Yeager summarizes Chaucer's education and career for the purpose of identifying the books, languages, and classical and vernacular literatures with which Chaucer was clearly acquainted. Discusses Chaucer's strategies for keeping literary authority at "stave's length" through a narrative persona and the dream vision, and his techniques for "asserting a claim upon it" in his most mature works.
- Alternative Title
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Life.