Contingent Chaucer: Experience, Time, and Modality in Chaucerian Poetics.

Author / Editor
Buchanan, Peter.

Title
Contingent Chaucer: Experience, Time, and Modality in Chaucerian Poetics.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2021.
Dissertation Abstracts International C83.10(E) (2021).

Description
Argues that Chaucer is a "philosophical poet" who "innovated a radical, anti-teleological poetics of contingency," showing how in CYT, ClT, TC, and HF he "reworks his sources to articulate his vision of contingency, and contest humanist narratives of utopian perfectibility and idealistic, teleological poetics."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Clerk and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale