Toward a Theory and Practice of Literary Valuing.

Author / Editor
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.

Title
Toward a Theory and Practice of Literary Valuing.

Published
New Literary History 46.2 (2015): 335–55.

Description
In an analysis of the question of literary value, argues for a pragmatic approach to understanding the value of literature, especially at present when that value is on the decline. References GP as general example of medieval literary valuing.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales