Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality.

Author / Editor
Fumo, Jamie C.

Title
Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 219-37.

Description
Traces connections between Ovid and Chaucer and asserts that "Chaucer emerges not simply as a conveyor of or apprentice to Ovid, but as a 'collaborator' in an Ovidian poetic, one who necessarily and wilfully transforms Ovid's 'book' into his own." In the sections that follow an introduction of Chaucerian and Ovidian resonances, makes a case for viewing Chaucer as Ovid's "dynamic partner and active contributor to Ovidian intertextuality."

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations