The Star System in Literary Studies

Author / Editor
Shumway, David R.

Title
The Star System in Literary Studies

Published
PMLA 112 (1997): 85-100.

Description
Contrasts the "star system" of contemporary critics (e.g., Derrida) with the previous paradigm of dominant but nonstellar scholars in Chaucer studies. George Lyman Kittredge, John M. Manly, and John Livingston Lowes serve as examples.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.