Aggressive Chaucer: Of Dolls, Drink and Dante.
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Aggressive Chaucer: Of Dolls, Drink and Dante.
- Published
- Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age 16 (2017): 357-76.
- Description
- Maintains that, despite the critical tradition of Chaucer's self-effacing persona, there are significant assertions of his own poetic authority in ThP and HF, and perhaps even challenges to Dante. Explores details of diction and imagery ("popet," "elvyssh," drinking one's own drink, etc.) to argue that, at times, "Chaucer's claims to poetic authority are aggressive" or "passive-aggressive."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Tale of Sir Thopas
Language and Word Studies