Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Physical Description
- viii, 279 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Reprints seven of Patterson's essays, with a new introduction, "Historicism and Postmodernity" (pp. 1-18), that explains why he pursues the "micronarratives" of New Historicism rather than those of psychoanalytic criticism. Patterson affirms the functions of historical criticism despite postmodern challenges to certainty.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.