Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Gust, Geoffrey W.
Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 286 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Gust seeks to "reenergize persona theory" for future Chaucer scholarship, arguing that Chaucer's "autofictional" persona should be regarded as the central topic not only of Chaucer's works but also of studies of his reception and literary history at large. Comments on the personae throughout Chaucer's corpus and on his reception history, focusing on biographical criticism from the fifteenth century to the present, several lyrics (Scog, Buk, Adam, Sted, Purse), Ret, WBPT, PardPT, and Th-MelL. Homosocial concerns in these works challenge critics to read Chaucer's persona in CT as queer, although not necessarily homosexual.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Wife of Bath and her Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Chaucer's Retraction
- Envoy to Scogan
- Envoy to Bukton
- Adam Scriveyn
- Lak of Stedfastnesse
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse