Modern Inconveniences: Rethinking the Parody in 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Glenn.
Modern Inconveniences: Rethinking the Parody in 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Published
- Genre 30 (1997): 167-94.
- Description
- Examines biographical, textual, and comparative approaches to Th to show how dependent they are on modern notions of author and text. Argues that medieval textuality and authorship pose methodological problems for understanding Th as parody, a genre that postdates the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.