Current and Recurrent Fallacies in Chaucer Criticism.
- Author / Editor
- Thompson. Meredith.
Current and Recurrent Fallacies in Chaucer Criticism.
- Published
- Max F. Schulz, William D. Templeton, and Charles R. Metzger, eds. Essays in American and English Literature Presented to Bruce Robert McElderry, Jr. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1967), pp. 141-64.
- Description
- Debunks tendencies in Chaucer criticism to read "too much into the text," identifying and exemplifying the "realistic fallacy," the "anachronistic fallacy," the "schematic fallacy," the "ideological fallacy," the "didactic fallacy," the "allegorical fallacy," the "christian-clerical fallacy," the "rationalistic" (or "assumptive") fallacy, the "intellectualizing fallacy," the "stylistic fallacy," and various combinations.
- Contributor
- Schulz, Max F., ed.
Templeton, William D., ed.
Metzger, Charles R., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Essays in American and English Literature Presented to Bruce Robert McElderry, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism