Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text
- Author / Editor
- Lancashire, Ian.
Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text
- Published
- Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xii, 339 pp. : b&w figs. and graphs.
- Description
- Explores literary composition as "cybertextuality," employing a fusion of cognitive theory, stylistic analysis, computer applications, and attribution studies. The goal is to uncover the compositional processes of writers by examining their verbal habits and their comments on authorship, including references to the muses and other remarks on literary creation. Lancashire examines the foul papers and stylistic habits of a wide range of poets and writers, medieval to modern. Discussion of Chaucer (pp. 116-33 and elsewhere) focuses on repeated phrases and on how patterns in repetition vary over the course of the composition of CT. Also comments on HF.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- House of Fame
- Canterbury Tales--General