Deconstructing Chaucer's Retraction

Author / Editor
Travis, Peter W.

Title
Deconstructing Chaucer's Retraction

Published
Peter L. Allen and Jeff Rider, ed. Reflections in the Frame: New Perspectives on the Study of Medieval Literature. Special issue of Exemplaria 3 (1991): 135-58.

Description
Ret is an example of a Derridean "parergon," simultaneously marginal to and an important element of CT. It allows for both humanistic and exegetical readings, producing a "hermeneutic double-bind," separated by an aporetic gap that generates new meanings and interpretations while denying interpretive closure.

Contributor
Allen, Peter L.
Rider, Jeff,

Alternative Title
Reflections in the Frame: New Perspectives on the Study of Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Retraction.