"The emprentyng of hire consolacioun": Engraving, Erosion, and Persistent Speech in "The Franklin’s Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Bennett, Alastair.
"The emprentyng of hire consolacioun": Engraving, Erosion, and Persistent Speech in "The Franklin’s Tale."
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 141-72.
- Description
- Traces the history and implications of the rhetorical analogy between the effects of "persistent speech" and water eroding or imprinting stone, from Ovid through medieval erotodidactic and religious writing to Boccaccio's Tale of Menedon and FranT, focusing on how "familiar wisdom might unfold new meanings in time." Chaucer's "sustained engagement" with the image in FranT complicates traditional uses by showing how Dorigen learns the "rewards and satisfactions of complaint" while Aurelius fails to "abandon the fantasy of 'emprentyng' his desires on Dorigen."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification