Signs, Symbols, and Cancellations

Author / Editor
Gardner, John.

Title
Signs, Symbols, and Cancellations

Published
John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University : University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 195-207.

Description
While "Robertsonianism" has produced scholastically defensible but totally lunatic readings, such as MilT as a "Christian meditation," it has also brilliantly illuminated BD. Its chief failure is tone deafness toward WBT, HF, etc. PF, LGW, TC, Anel, MkT, MilT have been shown much richer than we knew. CYT cancels SNT.

Alternative Title
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.