Prologue to a Criticism of Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Simmons, William Arthur.
Prologue to a Criticism of Medieval Literature
- Published
- DAI 32.09 (1972): 5201A.
- Description
- Proposes an "integration of the 'historical' and 'archetypal/esthetic' schools" of criticism of medieval literature, based on Ernst Cassirer's theories of symbol and the "evolutionary scheme of human self-consciousness," exemplifying the critical technique through an examination of TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde