A Refutation of Robert Byrne: John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces," Chaucer and Boethius.
- Author / Editor
- Leighton, H. Vernon.
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