Cawsey draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
Cawsey draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
Kathy Cawsey is an assistant professor of English Literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Contents: Preface Introduction: Chaucer, audiences and critics George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941): the dramatic reader C.S. Lewis (1894-1963): the psychological reader E. Talbot Donaldson (1910-1987): the careful reader D.W. Robertson (1914-1992): the allegorical reader Carolyn Dinshaw (1957-): the gendered reader Lee Patterson (1940-): the subjective reader Conclusion: readers then, now and in between Bibliography Index.
Contents: Preface Introduction: Chaucer, audiences and critics George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941): the dramatic reader C.S. Lewis (1894-1963): the psychological reader E. Talbot Donaldson (1910-1987): the careful reader D.W. Robertson (1914-1992): the allegorical reader Carolyn Dinshaw (1957-): the gendered reader Lee Patterson (1940-): the subjective reader Conclusion: readers then, now and in between Bibliography Index.
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