Medievalists and Deconstruction: An Exemplum

Author / Editor
Aers, David.

Title
Medievalists and Deconstruction: An Exemplum

Published
John Simons, ed. From Medieval to Medievalism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 29-40.

Description
Condemns the application of deconstructive criticism to medieval literature, critiquing, by way of example, the claim that Chaucer is a deconstructionist in Marshall Leicester, "Oure Tonges Difference: Textuality and Deconstructive in Chaucer" (1989).

Contributor
Simons, John,ed.

Alternative Title
From Medieval to Medievalism.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.