Donaldson and Robertson: An Obligatory Conjunction

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph.

Title
Donaldson and Robertson: An Obligatory Conjunction

Published
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 240-49.

Description
In juxtaposition to D. W. Robertson's comprehensive historicist method, E. Talbot Donaldson's "fundamentally rhetorical mode of analysis" also constituted a historicist approach, but one that moved from philological detail "toward some larger whole," the opposite of Robertson's approach from "grand theory" to individual case.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.