No [One] Way to Treat a Text: Donaldson and the Criticism of Engagement
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
No [One] Way to Treat a Text: Donaldson and the Criticism of Engagement
- Published
- ChauR 41 (2007): 261-70.
- Description
- In opposition to Robertson's "patristic exegesis," Donaldson models a practice of engaging the autonomy of medieval texts. In the process, he adopts a critical persona that, feminist critiques notwithstanding, "is a decorous fiction which may or may not correspond to its creator's patriarchal attitude toward women and texts."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.