"Counterfeit" Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" and Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."
- Author / Editor
- Strakhov, Elizaveta.
"Counterfeit" Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" and Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."
- Published
- In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 157-75.
- Description
- Argues that the differing treatments of Morpheus in BD and Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" "reflect on the advantages and limitations of 'imitatio' as a tool for authorial self-promotion." Underlying this reflection are contrasting strategies for harnessing poetic authority, either through literary history or through contemporary patronage.
- Alternative Title
- Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations