Kathy Cawsey

Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317005827
• Artikelnr.: 44782722

Autorenporträt

Kathy Cawsey is an assistant professor of English Literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Inhaltsangabe

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.