Precarious Figures, Rigorous Styles.

Description: Frames an assessment of literary theory with opening and closing comments on TC, claiming that, at the end of the poem, "Chaucer, in effect, is doing theory" and, by doing so, "converts his text into something residual and emergent, pleasurable and ameliorative, reparative and dialectical.” Discusses within this frame theoretical outlooks of Andrew Cole, Eve Sedgwick, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.