The Logic of Authorship in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
D'Attavi, Stefania D'Agata.

Title
The Logic of Authorship in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (Tùˆbingen: Narr Verlag, 2011), pp. 251-64

Description
Analyzes the role of the first-person pronoun, "supponit pro," and narrating voice in TC through the lens of "medieval sign theory." Argues that through translation, authorship is transformed because authorship becomes "a matter of re-elaboration rather than of mere imitation."

Alternative Title
Medieval and Early Modern Authorship.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations