The Poet Disarming Himself: Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas' and the Death of the Author
- Author / Editor
- Warkentin, Elyssa.
The Poet Disarming Himself: Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas' and the Death of the Author
- Published
- EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work 1 (2004): 139-56.
- Description
- Chaucer uses Th to "debunk his own textual authority" and subvert patriarchal power, enacting the "death of the author" that is completed in Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Chaucer's Retraction