Postmodernism in Medieval England: Chaucer, Pynchon, Joyce, and the Poetics of Fission
- Author / Editor
- Booker, M. Keith.
Postmodernism in Medieval England: Chaucer, Pynchon, Joyce, and the Poetics of Fission
- Published
- Exemplaria 2 (1990): 563-94.
- Description
- Reading CT through the lens of the postmodern text suggests certain Derridean and Bakhtinian parallels, illuminating the polysemic and polyphonic characteristics of Chaucer's text. Like the postmodernists, Chaucer tends to question authority; to transgress textual, social, and political boundaries; and to destablize hierarchies of all kinds.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.