Poetry and Authority

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the author
• About the book
• Citability of the eBook
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
• Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Sources
• Series Information
• Introduction
• I The Scholastic Concept of Poetry and the Authorisation of the Poetic Fable
• I.1 Questions of Truth and Falsehood: The Scholastic Concept of Poetry
• I.2 Constructing Poetic Authority: The Authorisation of the Poetic Fable
• I.2.1 The Explicit Authorisation of Poetic Fiction
• I.2.2 The Implicit Authorisation of Poetic Fiction
• I.2.3 Scholastic Authorisation and Vernacular Poetry
• II Finding the Truth Behind Chaucer’s Fables and Empowering the English Reader
• II.1 Authorising Chaucer in Fifteenth-Century England: Finding the Truth Behind Chaucer’s Fables
• II.1.1 The Explicit Authorisation of Chaucer’s Poetry
• II.1.2 The Implicit Authorisation of Chaucer’s Poetry
• II.2 Chaucer’s Doubts and Lydgate’s Worries: Empowering the English Reader
• II.2.1 Poetic Authority in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
• II.2.2 Poetic Authority in The Manciple’s Tale
• II.2.3 Poetic Authority in Isopes Fabules
• II.2.4 Poetic Authority in The Churl and the Bird
• III Poetic Authority, Vernacular Fable and the Empowered Reader in Early Printed Editions of the Canterbury Tales
• III.1 Poetic Authority, Vernacular Fable and the Empowered Reader in William Caxton’s Canterbury Tales
• III.2 Poetic Authority, Vernacular Fable and the Empowered Reader in Wynkyn de Worde’s Canterbury Tales
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Poetic Authority and Chaucer’s Fables
• Appendix B: Paraphs and Initials as Additions to The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and The Manciple’s Tale in MSS Hengwrt (Hg), Ellesmere (El), Arch. Selden. B.14 (Se) and in de Worde’s 1498-edition of the Canterbury Tales (Wn)
• Appendix C: The Presentation of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and The Manciple’s Tale in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B.14
• Bibliography