The Future of Chaucer Studies
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
The Future of Chaucer Studies
- Published
- Poetica (Tokyo) 50 (1998):17-29.
- Description
- Describes three recent schools of Chaucer criticism: "identity formation," New Historicism, and (three phases of) feminism.
- Opines that reading Chaucer, and English literary study generally, will be replaced by media studies in the near future, even though literature has the "secret weapon" of pleasure to forestall this process.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.