The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Mann, Jill.
The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 3-12.
- Description
- Chaucer's presentation of himself as a reader of literature is a metaphor for our own reading of his work, an acknowledgement of his concern with the reciprocal relationship between the reader's mind and the text.
- Alternative Title
- Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.