Poetry and Authority: Chaucer, Vernacular Fable and the Role of Readers in Fifteenth-Century England (Muensteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur / Muenster Monographs on English Literature, #39)

by David Nisters

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This study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis of a close reading of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale and Manciple's Tale, the book analyses how the concept of textual authority came to be both challenged and vindicated in the face of the growing importance of an empowered vernacular readership. Thus, the fables of John Lydgate and the presentation of Chaucer's texts in some of the earliest printed editions of the Canterbury Tales indicate the development of a Chaucerian poetics that was grounded in Chaucer's own critical reflection on the scholastic account of poetic fiction.

  • ISBN13 9783631761137
  • Publish Date 21 December 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Peter Lang AG