Chaucer's Prescience
- Author / Editor
- Fisher, John H.
Chaucer's Prescience
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 3-15.
- Description
- Noting increasing sophistication of Chaucer criticism in the twentieth century, Fisher moves beyond historical criticism toward reader-response theories and the thesis that Chaucer is indeed prescient, a poet for all times as in ClT.
- Alternative Title
- Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society Third International Congress, 1982.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Clerk and His Tale.