Chaucer, Arguing "in good feyth."

Description: Explores Chaucer's attitude toward the Boethian notion that "right reasoning alone should guarantee rhetorical success." Mirrored in Chaucer criticism and inflected by issues of gender and point of view, "objectivity," effective persuasion, and literary intention are, for Chaucer, largely matters of an audience’s predispositions. Assesses these concerns in Bo, WBP, ManT, TC, SNT, Mel, and PF, and comments on poststructuralist and feminist approaches to Chaucer studies.

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Boece
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Tale of Melibee
Second Nun and Her Tale
Manciple and His Tale