Afterword : On Allegory, Allegoresis, and the Erotics of Reading
- Author / Editor
- Gillespie, Vincent.
Afterword : On Allegory, Allegoresis, and the Erotics of Reading
- Published
- Mary Carr, K. P. Clarke, and Marco Nievergelt, eds. On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 231-56.
- Description
- Surveys distinctions between the restrictive "allegory of theologians" and the expansive "allegory of the poets," arguing that Chaucer's poetry is a radical form of the latter. Chaucer's works decenter the author and thereby pose "new kinds of imaginative syllogism" that prompt readers to various "wrong" readings and evoke parallels between political and readerly rebelliousness. Gillespie comments on HF, Mel, and the Host's response to ClT.
- Alternative Title
- On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Clerk and His Tale
- Tale of Melibee