Medieval Authorship at Reason's End: The Roman de la Rose's Legacy of Misrule

Author / Editor
McMillan, Samuel F.

Title
Medieval Authorship at Reason's End: The Roman de la Rose's Legacy of Misrule

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.05 (2016): n.p.

Description
Argues that the "Roman de la Rose" "initiates a literary tradition that understands reason to be in tension with and even antithetical to imaginative writing," examining in this light works by Chaucer (TC), Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve, exploring in them a "writerly art based in misrule."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources. Analogues, and Literary Relations