The Backward Look: Retrospectivity in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Waterhouse, Ruth,and John Stephens.

Title
The Backward Look: Retrospectivity in Medieval Literature

Published
Southern Review (Adelaide) 16 (1983): 356-73.

Description
Since literature is linear and sequential, the reader must reassess each line in terms of all previous lines to influence the total effect and alter perspective. Comparing Chaucer's treatment of the past to "Beowulf," Gower, and Malory, refers to TC, BD, and WBT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.