Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets: Compact Imaginations in Chaucer and Medieval Literary Theory
- Author / Editor
- Gillespie, Vincent.
Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets: Compact Imaginations in Chaucer and Medieval Literary Theory
- Published
- Martin Procházka and Jan Čermák, eds. Shakespeare Between the Middle Ages and Modernism: From Translator's Art to Academic Discourse. A Tribute to Professor Martin Hilský, MBE (Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 2008), pp. 11-39.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer requires readers to actively engage with the text as "active participators in the generation of meaning." Gillespie claims that Chaucer's role is more of a commentator rather than an "auctore," because he is as much a "product of the medieval commentary tradition as Dante, Petrarch or Boccaccio."
- Contributor
- Procházka, Martin, ed.
- Čermák, Jan, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Shakespeare Between the Middle Ages and Modernism: From Translator's Art to Academic Discourse. A Tribute to Professor Martin Hilský, MBE.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism