dc.contributor.author
Vrekaj, Juljan
dc.date.accessioned
2021-01-29T15:46:16Z
dc.date.available
2021-01-29T15:46:16Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/29416
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-29162
dc.description.abstract
In this essay, I give an alternative reading of Chaucerian resonances that fill Lydgate’s The Temple of Glass by analyzing the poem’s allusions to the House of Fame. I argue that Lydgate, as a poet who was well read in Chaucer and considered as his most prolific imitator, comprehended the experimentations of his ‘maister’. Taking into account Meyer-Lee’s study on the House of Fame, which explores Chaucer’s efforts to transform the value of the literary field of late medieval English poetry to better suit his then transitional social position, I assert that by borrowing details of setting, time and place from House of Fame, Lydgate implies his use of the framework set up by Chaucer to adopt his alteration of literary value. In doing so, Lydgate emulates Chaucer’s idea of the literary as an autonomous discourse, which would fundamentally allow him to write courtly productions even from his rather peculiar position as a monk. An analysis of the relations between Lydgate’s poetry and his position as a monk sheds light on his imitation in The Temple of Glass of Chaucer’s attempt to create a poetry that projected him as an authentic poet in connection with both the literary field of the court and his socioeconomic position.
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dc.format.extent
13 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
medieval literature
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dc.subject
dreamvisions
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dc.subject
marriage litigations
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dc.subject
Church court
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dc.subject
John Lydgate
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dc.subject.ddc
800 Literatur::800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft::800 Literatur und Rhetorik
dc.subject.ddc
800 Literatur::800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft::809 Geschichte, Darstellung, Literaturwissenschaft und- kritik
dc.title
‘A Marriage Litigation in the Church Court’: Lydgate’s Adaptation of Chaucer’s Literary Value in The Temple of Glass
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
9
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3390/h10010009
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Humanities
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
MDPI
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
10
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010009
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2076-0787