Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication?
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication?
- Published
- English Language Notes 29:2 (1991): 16-20.
- Description
- Carl Lindahl's hypothesis (Earnest Games, SAC 11 [1989], no. 135) of folkloric approaches to Chaucer oversimplifies and stereotypes the poet's art. Such readings, which detract from close reading, "have a potentially distorting effect."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.