Literary Theory, Medieval Studies, and the Crisis of Difference

Author / Editor
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].

Title
Literary Theory, Medieval Studies, and the Crisis of Difference

Published
Bruce Henricksen and Thais E. Morgan, eds. Reorientations: Critical Theories and Pedagogies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990) pp. 77-92.

Description
In medieval studies, which are threatened by pluralism, medievalists can communicate the intent of the originals (now translated) by using literary theory to examine "punning, allusion, quotation, and voice." Examines puns, etc. in TC, Dante's "Inferno," and "Beowulf."

Contributor
Henricksen, Bruce,
Morgan, Thais E.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Reorientations: Critical Theories and Pedagogies.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.