Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus.
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus.
- Published
- Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 192-205.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's "polyphony and polyvocality" are both "modern" and "progressive"--justification for dismantling the period boundary between medieval and Early Modern literatures. Surveys mixed, condescending praise by Early Modern critics of Chaucer as an ancient but indecorous writer, then demonstrates how Robert Greene's valuation of Chaucer in "Greene's Vision" (1592) offers a valid view of him as a up-to-date model of polyvocality. Comments on the Clerkâs view of Petrarch, ClT 4.26-30.
- Alternative Title
- Polyphony and the Modern
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification
Clerk and His Tale