Literary Theory, Medieval Studies, and the Crisis of Difference
- Author / Editor
- Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
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.