Chaucer and the Exegetes

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney.

Title
Chaucer and the Exegetes

Published
Studies in the Literary Imagination 4.2 (1971): 1-10.

Description
Assesses the pros and cons of applying patristic criticism to the study of Chaucer, arguing for typological rather than allegorical (or tropological) analyses and discouraging limited readings.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism