'Myn auctour': Spenser's Enabling Fiction and Eumnestes' 'immortal scrine'

Author / Editor
Anderson, Judith H.

Title
'Myn auctour': Spenser's Enabling Fiction and Eumnestes' 'immortal scrine'

Published
George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey, eds. Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 16-31.

Description
Argues that in his "Faerie Queene," Edmund Spenser intended his "avowed kinship with Chaucer, and especially with Chaucer's romances, as a paradigm of his relation to the recorded sources of memory." Fused in Spenser's "extension" of SqT, KnT and SqT "become an image of the extension of experience through time . . . which is characteristic of romance," and Spenser follows Chaucer as the Squire follows the Knight.

Contributor
Logan, George M., ed
Teskey, Gordon, ed.

Alternative Title
Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
Squire and His Tale