Critical Poetics: A Meditation on Alternative Critical Vernaculars.

Author / Editor
Johnson, Eleanor.

Title
Critical Poetics: A Meditation on Alternative Critical Vernaculars.

Published
Postmedieval 6.4 (2015): 361-74.

Description
Describes several ways of addressing modern "experimental poems 'as' criticism," and suggests that, adumbrating such metapoetic practice, the juxtaposition of Th and Mel "constitutes a wondering literary-theoretical response to Boethius' 'Consolation'" in which poetry (Th) "engages the senses" while prose (Mel) "engages the reason."

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Melibee
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations