Chaucer and the Text: Two Views of the Author

Author / Editor
Dinshaw, Carolyn.

Title
Chaucer and the Text: Two Views of the Author

Published
New York and London: Garland, 1988.

Physical Description
252 pp.

Series
Garland Publications in American and English Literature.

Description
Dinshaw argues that we must read the text of Chaucer dialectically, "both (as) the expression of an individual, historical writer and as having significance that is dependent upon preexisting structures of language." Investigates how texts "create" their authors and "how the author is delimited by the text itself" and examines the "figures of the poet" in HF, TC, and LGWP.
Originally Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1982.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
House of Fame.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Legend of Good Women.