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Re-Novating Troy: Chrematistics, Imagination, and Hybrid Temporalities in Chaucer's Troy stories
- Author(s):
- Wolfram Keller (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Medieval Studies
- Subject(s):
- Authorship, Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, Literature, Medieval
- Item Type:
- Online publication
- Tag(s):
- chrematistics, House of Fame, Matter of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer, Innovation, Late medieval English literature, Medieval literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GV9H
- Abstract:
- It is the purpose of this essay to show how, in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troy stories (The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde), literary innovation figures as temporal and categorical purification and hybridization. I aim to show that Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde implicitly stages literary innovation in terms of the textual strategies that are explicitly described and simultaneously enacted in his House of Fame. At the risk of oversimplification, my view of a Chaucerian poetics of literary re-novation runs something like this: The texts mentioned suggest, I believe, that poetic composition first and foremost begins at the nexus of a continuous multiplication of narratives and the concomitant necessity (and impossibility) of mapping, of distinguishing foregoing and authorized traditions. Categorizing narratives into traditions, however, results, at best, in an illusion of authorized knowledge. Within the fictional economy of Chaucer’s works, the purification of tradition inevitably leads to hybridizations, as new poetry ultimately emerges in the construction and subsequent deconstruction of narratives from contexts, especially temporal contexts.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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