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Chaucer and His Readers
Seth Lerer
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser to kings and master of technique, and Lerer reveals the patterns of subjection, childishness, and inability that characterize the stance of Chaucer's imitators and his readers. In figures from the Canterbury Tales such as the abused Clerk, the boyish Squire, and the infantilized narrator of the "Tale of Sir Thopas," in the excuse-ridden narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, and in Chaucer's cursed Adam Scriveyn, the poet's inheritors found their oppressed personae. Through close readings of poetry from Lydgate to Skelton, detailed analysis of manuscript anthologies and early printed books, and inquiries into the political environments and the social contexts of bookmaking, Lerer charts the construction of a Chaucer unassailable in rhetorical prowess and political sanction, a Chaucer aureate and laureate.
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The Legend of Good Women, Literature, The Knight's Tale, Reader-response criticism, Epistle, Epithet, The Various, Poet laureate, John Skelton, Edition (book), Muse, Italian Renaissance, Historiography, The House of Fame, Eloquence, Ricardian (Richard III), Anelida and Arcite, Couplet, Poet, Genre, Sylvia Huot, Stephen Hawes, The Fall of Princes, Troilus and Criseyde, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, Biography, Literary criticism, Roman de la Rose, Illustration, Literary theory, Stanza, Princeton University, Aureation, Fiction, Manuscript, Poetry, Petrarch, The Consolation of Philosophy, Middle English, Writing, Author, Persona, Writer, Cornell University Press, The Squire's Tale, Diction, Correction (novel), Old French, Anthology, Publication, Textual criticism, Parlement of Foules, Printing, The Prioress's Tale, English poetry, Prose, The Parson's Tale, Literary fiction, Allusion, Epigraphy, Narrative, Allegory, Troilus, Imagery, Evocation, Bodleian Library, Criticism, Rhetoric, Narration