Description
Book SynopsisConceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. This work focuses on relations between Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", including the role of the narrator.
Trade Review"A first-rate scholar-critic at the peak of her form." -- -William J. Kennedy Cornell University "A collection of essays written over a distinguished critic's career..." -Studies in English Literature "Reading the Allegorical Intertext gives rich attention to its four authors-Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton-although Spenser, who plays a major part in seventeen of the nineteen chapters, remains at the heart of the book." -Shakespeare Quarterly "...an impressive collection of seventeen of Judith Anderson's previously published articles..." -Renaissance Quarterly "A landmark contribution to work on the epochal transformations of medieval into Renaissance and early modern writing cultures." -- -Theresa Krier Macalester College "Exemplary. Anderson is patient but never dull as she sifts the textural and historical evidence out of which her readings are constructed." -- -David Lee Miller University of South Carolina
