Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her 'Schort Conclusioun'
- Author / Editor
- Higl, Andrew.
Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her 'Schort Conclusioun'
- Published
- Joshua R. Eyler, ed. Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 167-81.
- Description
- Treating a book or a "corpus" of literature as a body encourages a prosthetic approach to texts and to narratives. Henryson's addition to Chaucer's TC in his "Testament of Cresseid" works as a "double prosthesis" in which Henryson seeks to rehabilitate an incomplete narrative (Criseyde's outcome in TC is missing) by adding a disability (Cresseid's leprosy) to it.
- Alternative Title
- Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde