The Legend of Thebes and Literary Patricide in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Statius
- Author / Editor
- Schwebel, Leah.
The Legend of Thebes and Literary Patricide in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Statius
- Published
- SAC 36 (2014): 359-421.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's "occlusion" of Boccaccio as a source for TC and KnT is a complex affirmation of literary authority that asserts independence within a "genealogy of erasure." Statius, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and in turn Lydgate, manipulate deference to their predecessors and use various forms of the "trope of erasure" in order to establish their own places in poetic tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale