Convention and Authority: A Comment on Some Recent Critical Approaches to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Convention and Authority: A Comment on Some Recent Critical Approaches to Chaucer
- Published
- Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 71-81.
- Description
- Modern critical theory demonstrates the radically traditional closed systems of medieval poetry. In his negative examples and examples of abuse and falsification, especially in TC, Chaucer is also aware of what the classical tradition "is not."
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.