What happens when Chaucer turns up where we don't expect him to be? Transporting Chaucer draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to show that Chaucer's play with textual history and chronological time prefigures how his poetry becomes incorporate with later (and earlier) texts. The shuttling of bodies, names, and sounds in and amongst works that Chaucer did write anticipates Chaucerian presences in later (and earlier) works that he did not. Chaucer's characters, including 'himself' refuse to stay put in one place and time. This...
What happens when Chaucer turns up where we don't expect him to be? Transporting Chaucer draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alon...
Transporting Chaucer draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later (and earlier) texts. Conventional models of source and analogue study are re-energised to reveal unexpected, and sometimes unsettling, literary cohabitations and re-placements. The author presents innovative readings of relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, and...
Transporting Chaucer draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relatio...