'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler
- Author / Editor
- Partridge, Stephen.
'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler
- Published
- Stephen B. Partridge and Erik Kwakkel, eds. Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (Toronton: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 106-53..
- Description
- Argues that Ret elevates Chaucer's status as author, and creates the "illusion of Chaucer's presence and agency" for the reader of CT. Connects Chaucer's use of Ret to French literary culture, which helped define Chaucer's own sense of authorship.
- Alternative Title
- Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Retraction
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations