The Reconstruction of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
The Reconstruction of Chaucer

Published
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 3-19.

Description
Examines themes of literacy, orality, emphasis on the written word, and reading in BD, HF, PF, LGW. Chaucer is unallegorical, even in NPT. In reconstructing Chaucer, we must beware of approaches too technical that cut us off from a "feeling" response.

Alternative Title
Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society, Fourth International Congress, 6-11 July 1984, University of York.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.