The Fourteenth Century Environment of Discourse: Rhetoric and Imagination in Chaucer's Audience
- Author / Editor
- Buckler, Patricia Prandini.
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.