Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present: Chaucer, Gower, and Old Books.
- Author / Editor
- Urban, Malte.
Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present: Chaucer, Gower, and Old Books.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2005. Fully accessible via https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/poetics-of-the-past-politics-of-the-present/ (accessed April 6, 2026).
- Physical Description
- iii, 242 pp.
- Description
- "This thesis examines the poetics and politics of ‘olde bokes’ (Legend of Good Women, G, 25) in selected works by Chaucer and Gower, paying particular attention to the way in which both writers appropriate their sources and the theories of history and political ideas informing these appropriations. It argues that Chaucer eschews metanarratives in his appropriations of the past and its writings, emphasising the multiplicity of voices that are contained in written discourse across time." Focuses on HF, PF, TC, Mel, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Tale of Melibee
Nun's Priest and His Tale