Meditation on Our Chaucer and the History of the Canon.
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Meditation on Our Chaucer and the History of the Canon.
- Published
- Joseph A. Dane. Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2018), pp. 79-104.
- Description
- Asserts that the conflation of editing and canon-formation in literary history "involve[s] an unavoidable circularity of reasoning, and an equally unavoidable series of assumptions we often claim to wish to avoid." Explores logical and methodological flaws that beset textual studies of Chaucer, focusing in particular on the "late-nineteenth-century description of vowels," its misinformation and confusions, and the errors perpetrated by taking for granted its validity
- Alternative Title
- Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History.
- Chaucer Subjects
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