Reading Lessons: Chaucer and the Comfort of Uncertainty.
- Author / Editor
- Yager, Susan.
Reading Lessons: Chaucer and the Comfort of Uncertainty.
- Published
- James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 68-79.
- Description
- Argues that humor and multiple points of view make Chaucer's work essential reading in the "polemical atmosphere" of the present time. Contends that readers must pay careful attention when interpreting Chaucer's frequent ambiguities, reversals, and moments of stasis; yet, final judgments concerning, e.g., Chaucer's use of "ascaunces" (as if), are often impossible. Emphasizes how a looseness in description, characterization, and connections between tales and tellers fosters an atmosphere of toleration for contemporary readers of Chaucer's works. Focuses on CT, WBT, BD, PF, and TC.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Critical Insights Series
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Wife of Bath and Her Tale