Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity.
- Author / Editor
- Kuskin, William.
Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity.
- Published
- Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- xv, 278 pp.; 24 b&w illus.
- Description
- Theorizes "recursivity"--an alternative to "originality"--as a trope in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literary history, arguing that much often considered to be "original" or "revolutionary" in modernity is better understood as remaking and reasserting literary forms that came before, especially codicological forms. Recurrent attention to Chaucer's influence, including discussion of the role of Bo in the embedded philosophy of Caxton's "Boecius," the cultural impact of sixteenth-century editions of Chaucer's works (single or collected), and intertextualities among Spenser, Lydgate, and Chaucer, particularly invocations to the book (TC 5.1786-92) and lodestar imagery (TC 5.1392 and KnT 1.2059).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Background and General Criticism
Boece
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