The Fourteenth Century Environment of Discourse: Rhetoric and Imagination in Chaucer's Audience

Author / Editor
Buckler, Patricia Prandini.

Title
The Fourteenth Century Environment of Discourse: Rhetoric and Imagination in Chaucer's Audience

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 2153A.

Description
Studies the literacy, education, and cultural milieu of Chaucer's audience, the courtly circle and the upper socioeconomic echelons, especially the GP portrait of the Pardoner and PardT, to suggest reader response based on theories of Iser, Rosenblatt, and Hirsch.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.