Deconstructing 'The Canterbury Tales': Con
- Author / Editor
- Lawler, Traugott.
Deconstructing 'The Canterbury Tales': Con
- Published
- John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987), pp. 83-91.
- Description
- Though deconstruction is a useful tool for breaking down troublesome parts of CT, its "wholesale use" in the interpretation of Chaucer's poetry does great discredit to the author. Deconstructive criticism tends to place any author in a position subordinate to the critic in its suggestion that the author is a slave to the subconscious implications of language.
- Faith in the poet's ability to master the constructive and instructive uses of language should never be replaced by the inherent skepticism of deconstruction.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2 (1986)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.