Revisionary Retelling: The Metapoetics of Authorship in Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Barlow, Gania.
Revisionary Retelling: The Metapoetics of Authorship in Medieval England.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A75.11 (E). Fully available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and via https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/
- Physical Description
- iii, 253 pp.
- Description
- Explores how Marie de France, the 'Orfeo' poet, Thomas Chestre, Chaucer, and John Lydgate "tell stories about the possibilities and problems of vernacular retelling . . . [and] imagine and enact a type of authorship--and a type of authority--based in creative revision." Chapter three argues that Chaucer "depicts his own canon as dependent and unstable in his catalogues of his works [LGWP, MLP, Ret], and thereby takes ownership of the challenges of vernacular authorship and invents himself as an authoritative Middle English writer." Also addresses FranT as a lay and Chaucer as authority in Lydgate's Fall of Princes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Legend of Good Women
Man of Law and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Franklin and His Tale