"New Corn from Old Fields": The "Auctor" and "Compilator" in Fourteenth-Century English Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Caie, Graham.
- Title
- "New Corn from Old Fields": The "Auctor" and "Compilator" in Fourteenth-Century English Literature.
- Published
- Caie, Graham. "New Corn from Old Fields": The "Auctor" and "Compilator" in Fourteenth-Century English Literature. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47 (2003): 59-71.
- Review
- Caie is primarily concerned with Chaucer, although he briefly treats several other writers as well (Langland, Marie de France, Boccaccio, e.g.) by way of describing how access to manuscripts, with marginalia, better replicates the medieval reading experience than modern editions. He follows Minnis in distinguishing the notion of "auctor" from "compilator," finding Chaucer more of the former and Gower the latter. [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 39.2]
- Date
- 2003
- Gower Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations