Medieval Secular Allegory: French and English
- Author / Editor
- Kamath, Stephanie Gibbs, and Rita Copeland.
Medieval Secular Allegory: French and English
- Published
- Rita Copeland and Peter T. Struck, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 136-47.
- Description
- Kamath and Copeland survey the legacy of philosophical allegory and secular allegory--largely inspired by the "Roman de la Rose"--in late medieval France and, by extension, England. They focus on Machaut, Froissart, and Deschamps and their relative impact on Chaucer, Gower, and Christine de Pizan. In BD, HF, and LGW, Chaucer consistently uses strategies that embed "new and always productive ambiguities about the capacities and limitations of allegory as a literary form."
- Contributor
- Copeland, Rita.
- Copeland, Rita, ed.
- Struck, Peter, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Cambridge Companion to Allegory.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Legend of Good Women