The Originality of Texts in a Manuscript Culture
- Author / Editor
- Bruns, Gerald L.
The Originality of Texts in a Manuscript Culture
- Published
- Comparative Literature 32 (1980): 113-29.
- Description
- Theorizes differences between grammatical/rhetorical invention and Romantic ideas of creativity and originality, commenting on Chaucer's TC and, passingly, on his Adam Scriveyn, as well as on Petrarch's adaptation of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda, Chrétien's romances, and more. Where Chaucer asks for "scribal" literalness in Adam, his profession that he is following his sources in TC "conceals only to emphasize the richness of the grammarian-poet's embellishments," creating a kind of originality that is "inter- rather than extralinear."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Adam Scriveyn