["Chaucer the Father": Rhetoric of the Nation.]

Author / Editor
Kim, Jaecheol.

Title
["Chaucer the Father": Rhetoric of the Nation.]

Published
Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 58 (2012): 143-61.

Description
Argues that a "pre-modern nationalist discourse" inspired Chaucer to "spawn his own 'nationalist discourse,'" and that Chaucer's reception as the "father" of English poetry "mediates thirteenth century post-colonialism and nineteenth-century colonialism." In Korean, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion