Dante's 'Commedia' and Chaucer's Theory of Mediation: A Preliminary Sketch

Author / Editor
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].

Title
Dante's 'Commedia' and Chaucer's Theory of Mediation: A Preliminary Sketch

Published
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 83-103.

Description
Modern literary theory is concerned with the problem of "how language 'refers' in the critical text that has lost faith in the communion between language and reality." Shoaf observes this faith, which was stronger in the Middle Ages, at work in the "Commedia" and TC.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.