An Unwitting Return to the Medieval: Postmodern Literary Experiments and Middle English Textuality
- Author / Editor
- Evans, Gareth Lloyd.
An Unwitting Return to the Medieval: Postmodern Literary Experiments and Middle English Textuality
- Published
- Neophilologus 100 (2016): 335-44.
- Description
- Argues that "postmodern literary experiments tend to enact, and embody, an unwitting return to medieval modes of textuality," observing how PF, CT as a whole, individual tales, and the multiplicity of variant manuscripts "actively resist a sense of closure or unitary perspectives." Compares several postmodern examples.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Parliament of Fowls
Canterbury Tales--General