Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse
- Author / Editor
- McGerr, Rosemarie P.
Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse
- Published
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
- Physical Description
- x, 210 pp.
- Description
- Argues that all of Chaucer's major works "play with medieval concepts of closure" and that the inconclusiveness of these works self-consciously indicates that readers generate their own meanings.
- Through play with (non)closure and (in)conclusiveness, Chaucer explores the goals of fiction and enables us to understand our limitations.
- Open literary forms, closure, and conclusiveness were topics of concern for medieval theorists as well as for more modern ones.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.