The Alchemy of Imagination and the Labyrinth of Meaning: Some Caveats About the Afterlife of Sources

Author / Editor
Collette, Carolyn P.

Title
The Alchemy of Imagination and the Labyrinth of Meaning: Some Caveats About the Afterlife of Sources

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 243-48.

Description
Collette offers Umberto Eco's notion of a "rhizome labyrinth's indefinite structure" as a heuristic tool for describing the relationship of a text to its "cultural matrix" rather than to specific sources. Focuses on CYT.

Alternative Title
Colloquium: The Afterlife of Origins

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations