Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader
- Author / Editor
- Jordan, Robert M.
Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader
- Published
- Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1987.
- Description
- Advising Chaucerians to abandon literary interpretation in favor of poetics, Jordan catalogues the genres, modes, and discursive forms of a particular Chaucerian text, first pointing out their incompatibility and then noting the failure of univocal interpretations to regulate such a gallimaufry of verbal figures and formal structures.
- There is only linguistic surface in Chaucer's works--no thematic, dramatic, or psychological depth requiring interpretation. Jordan discusses HF, BD, PF, LGW, GP, PardT, NPT, ManT, ParsT, and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- House of Fame.