Who Has Intention? Chaucer Studies and the Search for Meaning.

Author / Editor
Contzen, Eva von.

Title
Who Has Intention? Chaucer Studies and the Search for Meaning.

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023) 597-622.

Description
Focuses on three different approaches to CT, examines the ways that scholars have attempted to avoid ascribing intention to Chaucer, and concludes that "when engaging with Chaucer, critics need to embrace intention as a key generator in the meaning-making activity of interpretation."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Background and General Criticism