John Darnielle and the Two Medieval Geoffreys.
John Darnielle's 2022 novel, Devil House , explicitly alludes to Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum and Geoffrey Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas to explore the ethics of writing historical narratives. We demonstrate that in Geoffrey of Monmouth Darnielle finds support for a historiography that i...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 122; no. 4; pp. 437 - 460 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Chicago Press
May2025
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