"Enditynges of worldly vanitees": Truth and Poetry in Chaucer as Compared with Dante.
- Author / Editor
- Franke, William.
"Enditynges of worldly vanitees": Truth and Poetry in Chaucer as Compared with Dante.
- Published
- William Franke. Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 43–69.
- Description
- Addresses the "bifurcation of philosophy and theology intervening between Dante and Chaucer," arguing that Chaucer "never demonstrated any confidence that poetry could in any way represent the reality of the divine." Assesses the "empiricism" of LGW, HF, TC, and CT and maintains that, for Chaucer, "the one and only positive, yet critical purpose" of poetry is "the disillusioning function."
- Alternative Title
- Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Canterbury Tales--General