Father Chaucer : generating authority in The Canterbury Tales /

Paternity is a powerful metaphor for literary authority and legitimacy, and thus Geoffrey Chaucer has been granted the supposedly supreme honor of being termed the 'father of English poetry.' And yet, as this book argues, the idea of paternity as unchallenged authority is a far more modern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Seal, Samantha Katz (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:	Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales. Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey) Authority in literature. God in literature. Fatherhood in literature. Autorité dans la littérature. Dieu dans la littérature. Paternité dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM. Poetry. Medieval. POETRY. Authority in literature Fatherhood in literature God in literature Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

On certainty. Sexual exegetics and the female text ; The uneasy institution : lineage and the Wife of Bath
On creation. Uncertain labor : conception and the problem of productivity ; Adultery's heirs : multiplying excess
On likeness. Almost heirs : daughters and disappointments ; Father Chaucer's heirs.