(In)completeness in Middle English Literature: The Case of the "Cook's Tale" and the "Tale of Gamelyn."

Author / Editor
Stinson, Timothy L.

Title
(In)completeness in Middle English Literature: The Case of the "Cook's Tale" and the "Tale of Gamelyn."

Published
Manuscript Studies 1.1 (2017): 115-34.

Description
Considers literary completeness, its relations to philosophies of perfection, and "the ways in which incompleteness is a special characteristic of Middle English literature," particularly in manuscript studies. Surveys kinds of incompleteness in CT, and focuses on scribal responses to the fragmentary CkT, suggesting that digital editions can "equip readers to explore the constant elaboration, the polyvalent properties and voices of manuscript texts."

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Cook and His Tale
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations