Affective Stylistics and the Study of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Wood, Chauncey.

Title
Affective Stylistics and the Study of Chaucer

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 21-40.

Description
Reading is a "two-way" process: "texts affect us while we affect texts." Chaucer typically "plays" with his readers, leading them to expect one meaning but giving them another. Any interpretation is influenced both by Chaucer's techniques and by what the reader "brings to the text."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.