Fresh Colors of Rhetoric: John Lydgte and Medieval English Nationhood
- Author / Editor
- Keller, Wolfram R.
Fresh Colors of Rhetoric: John Lydgte and Medieval English Nationhood
- Published
- Klaus Stierstorfer, ed. Anglistentag 2007 Mùˆnster: Proceedings (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), pp. 385-99.
- Description
- Examines John Lydgate's sources for his "Troy Book," including HF and TC, arguing that Lydgate re-invents "Britain's Trojan origins," calling into question Lancastrian imperialism and offering a "Chaucerian counter-nationhood," anchored in individual perspective and "masking a full-blown poetics of authorship."
- Contributor
- Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Anglistentag 2007 Mùˆnster: Proceedings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- House of Fame
- Troilus and Criseyde