Against Order: Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Critiques of Causality.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor.
Against Order: Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Critiques of Causality.
- Published
- In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 61-82.
- Description
- Argues that HF, like Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and Lyn Hejinian's "My Life," rejects a "hermeneutic of linear causality." Both Chaucer and the postmedieval authors develop the potential of the dream-vision form to advance a "literary philosophy" that features "a resistant politics of accident and rupture" rather than an "organized andcausal providential universe."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion