A Refutation of Robert Byrne: John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces," Chaucer and Boethius.

Author / Editor
Leighton, H. Vernon.

Title
A Refutation of Robert Byrne: John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces," Chaucer and Boethius.

Published
Notes on Contemporary Literature 42.1 (2012): 11-12.

Description
Provides evidence that much of John Kennedy Toole's knowledge of Boethius, important to his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," came through the Chaucer class that he took from Robert Lumiansky.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion