"Go Little Book": The Matter of Troy and the Ecology of the Medieval Codex.
- Author / Editor
- Desmond, Marilynn.
"Go Little Book": The Matter of Troy and the Ecology of the Medieval Codex.
- Published
- Romanic Review 111.1 (2020): 85-105.
- Description
- Uses two of the "modes of existence" theorized by Bruno Latour--technological and fictional--to examine medieval manuscripts, arguing that the "affordances and ecologies" of codices as technology encouraged the "proliferation" of fictional beings in the matter of Troy. Examines Chaucer's "litel book," addressed in TC, as a "sentient artifact" and as a "remediation" of its source in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and ancient tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations