Making Trouble: Postmodern Theory with/in Chaucer Studies

Description: Recent work on Chaucer influenced by poststructuralism can be roughly divided into two types: that which finds postmodern concerns already in medieval poetics and language theory, and that which approaches Chaucerian texts through postmodern theories.; Both tendencies seem motivated by a sense of loss and (possible) fullness, but they vary in their estimation of which era needs to be "filled." Walker surveys criticism, with a bibliography of post-1985 work.