Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past.

Author / Editor
Lerer, Seth.

Title
Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past.

Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Physical Description
xiii, 135 pp.

Series
The Literary Agenda,

Description
Investigates the role of "tradition in the literary imagination" and the value of literature, particularly the "value of close and nuanced reading for our understanding of both past and present." Includes discussion of George Orwell's engagement with Chaucer in "1984" and comments on orality and literacy in CT, especially MilP. Also assesses the "problem of attention" in CT, i.e., its consideration of audience attention in the making of meaning.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General
Miller and His Tale