The Logic of Authorship in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- D'Attavi, Stefania D'Agata.
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