The Auctor in the Paratext: Rubrics, Glosses, and the Construction of Vernacular Authorship.
- Author / Editor
- Van Dyke, Carolynn.
The Auctor in the Paratext: Rubrics, Glosses, and the Construction of Vernacular Authorship.
- Published
- Modern Philology 115 (2017): 1–30.
- Description
- Examines manuscript rubrics and glosses that engage ideas of authorship, specifically those that cite an "auctor" or "aucteur" in manuscripts of the "Roman de la Rose," Machaut's "Judgment of the King of Navarre," TC, and CT. Gauges the kinds and degrees of authority and authenticity perceived by scribes who used such paratexts--evidence of development in the status of vernacular writers as authors. In TC manuscripts, the glosses mark "a speaker performing as an authority"; in CT manuscripts, Chaucer "knows how to play with and for authenticity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations