Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Bloomfield, Morton W.
Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer
- Published
- Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 23-36.
- Description
- We need an "over-all metaphysics" such as the fourteenth-century "Aristotelian ontology and psychology," or such modern systems as "phenomenology, Marxism, Heideggarian ontology, positivism,...existentialism, and Chomskyean rationalism" as approaches to literature of the past, including Chaucer.
- See the responses in the same volume: Alastaire J. Minnis, "Chaucer and Comparative Theory,"and Florence H. Ridley, "A Response to Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer."
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.