Chaucer's Sources and Chaucer's Lies: "Anelida and Arcite" and the Poetics of Fabrication.
- Author / Editor
- Miller, T. S.
Chaucer's Sources and Chaucer's Lies: "Anelida and Arcite" and the Poetics of Fabrication.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114 (2015): 373-400.
- Description
- Maintains that in Anel, a poem about the faithless lover Arcite, the poet narrator is also false both in specific details and in reference to his putative sources. Argues that Chaucer emphasizes "the deception inherent in his poetic process" in a poem that claims to preserve memory but "fabricates" its own claims to authenticity and truthfulness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Anelida and Arcite
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations