Literary Paternity and Narrative Revival: Chaucer's Soul(s) from Spenser to Dryden.
- Author / Editor
- Espie, Jeff.
Literary Paternity and Narrative Revival: Chaucer's Soul(s) from Spenser to Dryden.
- Published
- Modern Philology 114 (2016): 39-58.
- Description
- Claims that Chaucer, Spenser, and Dryden may be understood as a collective devoted to the project of "reviving or supplementing destroyed, deferred, and unfulfilled stories." Demonstrates the recursive, rather than linear, relations among these poets' work in a comparison of the progress of souls after death in Anel, KnT, and SqT; in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," Book 4; and in Dryden's "Fables Ancient and Modern."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Anelida and Arcite
Knight and His Tale
Squire and His Tale