Chaucer and Jean de Meun as Self-Conscious Narrators: The Prologue to the 'Legend of Good Women' and the 'Roman de la Rose' 10307-680
- Author / Editor
- Knopp, Sherron.
Chaucer and Jean de Meun as Self-Conscious Narrators: The Prologue to the 'Legend of Good Women' and the 'Roman de la Rose' 10307-680
- Published
- Comitatus 4 (1973): 25-39.
- Description
- Argues that in LGWP Chaucer derives his tone from Jean de Meun's self-conscious narratation in the "Roman de la Rose," as well as many "particularities . . . of himself as love and writer." Chaucer's narrator is a caricature of Jean's Amant, an "inversion" or "antithesis," even though each poet successfully justifies the "non-courtly contents" of his works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations