Is the Audience Dead Too? Textually Constructed Audiences and Differentiated Learning in Medieval England.

Author / Editor
Murchison, Krista A.

Title
Is the Audience Dead Too? Textually Constructed Audiences and Differentiated Learning in Medieval England.

Published
Modern Language Review 115 (2020): 497-517.

Description
Explores how writers and audiences in medieval England "approached textually constructed audiences," considering evidence from rhetorical theory, readers' comments, and "signs of adaptation undertaken by authors, correctors, and scribes." Concentrates on confessional manuals and religious instruction, but includes comments on CT and the ways it depicts "narrators grappling" with diverse audiences, particularly in MilP and CYT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Miller and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale