Abandon the Fragments
- Author / Editor
- Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Abandon the Fragments
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 47-83.
- Description
- Documents how editors' presentation of CT as a sequence of fragments is misguided and encourages that the description be abandoned. The term misrepresents the evidence of the manuscripts, and is misleading because Chaucer's discontinuities are habitual. Encourages editors to follow the best "structural labeling" among the manuscripts, perhaps that of the Ellesmere manuscript.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations