Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, Judith H.
Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
- Published
- New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- x, 436 pp.
- Description
- Anderson considers intertextuality to be both a result of authorial intent and an inevitability of language, assessing various kinds of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Allegory is a "process of thinking," a kind of metaphor that is "continued" or "moving" through plot. Allegory informs the intertextual relationships among the four "landmark" authors discussed in seventeen revised or reprinted essays and two new essays (both on Milton). Chapter 7 "substantially revises" a 1971 essay on NPT and Spenser's Muiopotmos, and six other essays, originally published between 1982 and 2006 and here lightly revised, pertain to Chaucer's impact on Spenser.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Nun's Priest and His Tale