Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book.
- Author / Editor
- Boenig, Robert.
Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book.
- Published
- Dorsey Armstrong, Alexander L. Kaufman, and Shaun F. D. Hughes, eds. Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2016), pp. 323-44. 2 b&w illus.
- Description
- Contrasts the unequivocal hermeneutics of "eating a book"--i.e., internalizing the text of the Bible and its "one true meaning"--as depicted in the illustration of the Cloisters Apocalypse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, MS 68.174) with the nondirective authorial stance depicted in Chaucer addressing the court audience in the TC manuscript, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61. Identifies a number of instances of such nondirective strategies in Chaucer's poetry and comments on his uses of the Apocalypse in PrT and HF.
- Contributor
- Armstrong, Dorsey, ed.
Kaufman, Alexander L., ed.
Hughes, Shaun F. D., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Prioress and Her Tale
House of Fame