Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention.
- Author / Editor
- Pasnau, Robert.
Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention.
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023): 519-43.
- Description
- Offers precedents from medieval texts to show that to learn from a text, readers "have reason to consider what its author means"; that, when readers are "morally engaged with a text," they have reason to engage with the author's intentions"; and that, when moved by a text, readers "attempt an interpersonal connection with the author behind the words." Draws examples from various works, including Chaucer's Th and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Tale of Sir Thopas
Chaucer's Retraction