Critical Communities and the Shape of the Medievalist's Desire: A Response to Judith Ferster and Louise Fradenburg
- Author / Editor
- Bloch, R. Howard.
Critical Communities and the Shape of the Medievalist's Desire: A Response to Judith Ferster and Louise Fradenburg
- Published
- Exemplaria 2 (1990): 203-20.
- Description
- Ferster's and Fradenburg's essays problematize the critical act of reading medieval texts: Ferster's examination of "who speaks" in PrT extends to the critic's own voice; Fradenburg's articulation of medievalists' anxieties concerning the status of a lost past reveals the political effects of viewing scholarship as restorative.
- The implications of both essays could be extended by constructing an external history of the discipline of medieval studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Prioress and Her Tale.