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

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

Hardcover

Series: Münsteraner Monographien Zur Englischen Literatur / Münster Monographs On English Literature, Book 39

Greek (Modern)ItalianLatin

ISBN10: 3631761139
ISBN13: 9783631761137
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Dec 21 2018
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This study argues that the critical response to textual authority in Chaucer's fables helped to negotiate scholastic poetics in fifteenth-century England. Drawing on a selection of late medieval sources, the book traces the re-assessment of textual authority in the face of the growing importance of an empowered vernacular readership.

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