Chaucerian Representation

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
Chaucerian Representation

Published
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 7-30.

Description
Surveys the evolution of critical appropriations and pictorial representations of Chaucer from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, suggesting that oversimplifications of Chaucer recur because he is so deeply concerned with the generative processes of literature. Cooper confronts the question, "What is it that Chaucer imitates or represents?" Recurrent attention to PF, Th, and imitations of Chaucer.

Alternative Title
New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Parliament of Fowls.
Tale of Sir Thopas.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.