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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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