Academic Study in a Deconstructive Age, or What if the Wife of Bath Had Read Harold Bloom?
- Author / Editor
- O'Brien, Dennis.
Academic Study in a Deconstructive Age, or What if the Wife of Bath Had Read Harold Bloom?
- Published
- CEA Critic 52:4 (1990): 2-9.
- Description
- Argues that writers or works or periods can offer alternatives to modern critical theory. O'Brien's view that Chaucer presents union (in particular, love and marriage) as an overarching theme of CT encourages us to see that views other than deconstruction may provide a new way of looking at the great tradition of literature.
- Alternative Title
- "What if the Wife of Bath Had Read Harold Bloom?"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.