Poetry and Authority: Chaucer, Vernacular Fable and the Role of Readers in Fifteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9783631761137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str.

David Nisters

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Scholastic poetics, poetic fiction and the late medieval vernacular fable - Poetic authority and the authorisation of Chaucer - Chaucer's poetics and its reception in fifteenth-century England

O autorze

David Nisters studied English at Leipzig University (Germany) and University College Cork (Rep. Ireland). His academic interests include Middle English poetry, the history of the book and late medieval cultures of reading.