Against Order: Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Critiques of Causality.

Author / Editor
Johnson, Eleanor.

Title
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