Why Do English Professors Say Such Crazy Things About 'The Canterbury Tales'?: An Investigation of the Rhetoric, Logic, Method, and History of Academic Exegesis of Chaucer's 'Tales' in America, 1900-1984
- Author / Editor
- Halliburton, Thomas Laughlin.
Why Do English Professors Say Such Crazy Things About 'The Canterbury Tales'?: An Investigation of the Rhetoric, Logic, Method, and History of Academic Exegesis of Chaucer's 'Tales' in America, 1900-1984
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3027A.
- Description
- In attempting to make of literary criticism a science, the profession falls into illogic and absurdity. Readings of KnT and MerT differ wildly. From Kittredge to 1980s, critics have been self-deluded.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.