Writing Alternative Worlds: Rituals of Authorship and Authority in Late Medieval Theological and Literary Discourse
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard.
Writing Alternative Worlds: Rituals of Authorship and Authority in Late Medieval Theological and Literary Discourse
- Published
- Sven Rune Havsteen, Nils Holger Petersen, Heinrich W. Schwab, and Eyolf Østrem, eds. Creations: Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation. Ritus et Artes, no. 2. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007, pp. 121-38.
- Description
- The nominalist concept of absolute divine power may underpin Chaucer's experiments "with a variety of authorship roles." In TC, both Pandarus and the narrator complicate the author's pose as a mere compiler or translator. Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" and John Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" indicate and imitate Chaucer's "playful experiment with authorial omniscience."
- Contributor
- Havsteen, Sven Rune, and others, eds.
- Alternative Title
- Creations: Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion