Textual Criticism and Literary Theory: Chaucer and His Readers
- Author / Editor
- Lerer, Seth.
Textual Criticism and Literary Theory: Chaucer and His Readers
- Published
- Exemplaria 2 (1990): 329-45.
- Description
- Fifteenth-century readers of Chaucer shaped the Chaucerian canon and cult of authorship by appropriating both the language and the rhetorical strategy of ClT, wherein the Clerk simultaneously recognizes the authority of Petrarch and appropriates to himself the editorial freedom to recast his tale for the tastes and expectations of a new, historically situated audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.