The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante, and Chaucer

Author / Editor
O'Connell, Brendan.

Title
The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante, and Chaucer

Published
Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 261-78.

Description
Traces Chaucer's and Dante's different responses to poetic "representation and authority" to Jean de Meun's "Le roman de la rose," examining the "poetics of fraud" in PardT and HF.

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Pardoner and His Tale
House of Fame