The Poet Disarming Himself: Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas' and the Death of the Author

Author / Editor
Warkentin, Elyssa.

Title
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