TY  - BOOK
AU  - David Nisters
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631773093
TI  - Poetry and Authority
T2  - Chaucer, Vernacular Fable and the Role of Readers in Fifteenth-Century England
DO  - 10.3726/b14864
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057036
N2  - 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.
KW  - scholastic poetics, Chaucerianism, poetic fiction
LA  - English
ER  -