The Gleaner's Prologue: Chaucer's Legend of Ruth
- Author / Editor
- Lupton, Julia Reinhard.
The Gleaner's Prologue: Chaucer's Legend of Ruth
- Published
- Julia Reinhard Lupton, Afterlives of Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 73-84.
- Description
- Analyzes Chaucer's uses in LGWP of the term "legend" and the image of "gleaning" for literary leftovers, the latter derived from Leviticus and here linked to the Book of Ruth. Reads these devices for their implications in the development of hagiography and narrative tradition in western literature, suggesting that LGWP represents Chaucer's awareness of the "intertextal transactions" involved in writing literature.
- Alternative Title
- Afterlives of Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations