Gothic Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek.
Gothic Chaucer
- Published
- Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 1-32.
- Description
- Exemplifies a variety of "inconsistencies and discontinuities" in Chaucer's works, particularly CT, presenting them as typical of the poet's "Gothic" aesthetics and consistent with contemporaneous art and the "complex cultural pluralism" of his age," which is described here. Juxtaposition, opposition, paradox, inorganic disunity, and fusion of genres (especially "anatomy" and romance) are more typical of Chaucer's art than of his contemporaries and are characteristic of his depictions of women, religion, and the responsibilities of the artist.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Style and Versification