Reading Badly: What the "Physician's Tale" Isn't Telling Us.
- Author / Editor
- Prendergast, Thomas A.
Reading Badly: What the "Physician's Tale" Isn't Telling Us.
- Published
- In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 149-64.
- Description
- Shows how PhyT both frustrates formal classification and foregrounds problems of reading and interpretation. Virginia is a text who is "misread" and rewritten by Apius, Virginius, Harry Bailly, and even Virginia herself.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale