The legacy of Apollo : antiquity, authority and Chaucerian poetics /
'The Legacy of Apollo is one of the most important books on Chaucer in recent years. Wide-ranging and elegant, Jamie Fumo's work provides an important recontextualization of Chaucer's narrative persona in neglected classical and medieval traditions.'-Michael Kensak, Department of...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Apollo as Human God: Ovid and Medieval Ovidianism
- 2. The Medieval Apollo: Classical Authority and Christian Hermeneutics
- 3. Imperial Apollo: From Virgil's Rome to Chaucer's Troy
- 4. Fragmentary Apollo: The Squire's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, and Chaucerian Self-Fashioning
- 5. Domestic Apollo: Crises of Truth in the Manciple's Tale
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index