Chaucer's Afterlife: Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture
- Author / Editor
- Forni, Kathleen.
Chaucer's Afterlife: Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture
- Published
- Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013.
- Physical Description
- vii, 168 pp.
- Description
- Distinguishes between academic and popular versions of Chaucer, defining and discussing various categories of popular intertextuality: adaptations, appropriations, invocations, and citations--diminishing degrees of engagement with original works. Also focuses on select popular materials produced since 1990: detective fiction, filmed adaptations, literature of the African diaspora, and market-driven capitalizing on Chaucer and his image. This popular tradition engages CT almost exclusively among Chaucer's works, particularly its satire, tale-telling, and pilgrimage motif.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Canterbury Tales--General