Historicists and Their Discontents: Reading Psychoanalytically in Medieval Studies
- Author / Editor
- Scala, Elizabeth.
Historicists and Their Discontents: Reading Psychoanalytically in Medieval Studies
- Published
- TSLL 44: 108-31, 2002.
- Description
- Assesses the debate between psychoanalytic and historicist critics, arguing that psychoanalytic assumptions and interpretations are embedded in historicist analysis, despite historicist claims of rejecting psychoanalysis. Considers works by major Chaucerians: Louise Fradenburg, Anne Middleton, David Aers, and Lee Patterson.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.