Voice and Public Interiorities: Chaucer, Orpheus, Machaut

Author / Editor
Lawton, David.

Title
Voice and Public Interiorities: Chaucer, Orpheus, Machaut

Published
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 284-306.

Description
Studies the importance of "voice" within medieval studies; develops an "interrelation between voice and public"; and positions Chaucer as "a public poet" who is concerned with voice throughout his works. Considers voice in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Machaut's poem "Le voir dit." Refers to BD, HF, and TC.

Alternative Title
Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde