A Response to 'Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer'
- Author / Editor
- Ridley, Florence H.
A Response to 'Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer'
- Published
- Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 37-51.
- Description
- Descriptive rather than interpretative approaches are preferred for Chaucer literary studies, according to Bloomfield, but we need to know "how" the poet constructed his work; thus semantics, the philosophy of speech acts, sociology, etc., are central to literary study.
- A response to Morton Bloomfield, "Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer," in the same volume.
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.