The Legacy of Apollo : : Antiquity, Authority and Chaucerian Poetics / / Jamie Fumo.
Apollo, the classical god of poetry, truth, light, and the healing arts, held a special fascination for poets and scholars in the late-medieval period. As the English vernacular gained literary prestige in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, poets harnessed the precedent and authority of classic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 8 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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