Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Sobecki, Sebastain.
Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England.
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- ix, 226 pp.
- Description
- Claims that "medieval vernacular literature . . . is indexical . . . and created for a specific audience with direct access to the author" as well as the author's social and historical conditions. Focuses on Chaucer's "authorial humility" and intention in Ret, and suggests the work "continues the tradition of . . . mock-remorseful palinodes" in medieval narrative poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Retraction