"And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace": Reconstructing the Spectral Canon in Statius and Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Strakhov, Elizaveta.
"And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace": Reconstructing the Spectral Canon in Statius and Chaucer.
- Published
- Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 57-74.
- Description
- Reviews the presence of Statius's "Thebaid" in TC, exploring in detail the juxtaposition of Statian and Ovidian material in Cassandra's explanations of Troilus's dream of the boar, explaining Chaucer's elision of Boccaccio from his poem as Chaucer's imitation of Statius's "poetics of disavowal," and commenting on Chaucer's complex use of the list-of-poets topos in TC, 5.1782.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations