Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences

by Kathy Cawsey

Book Overview

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032928085
• ISBN13: 9781032928081
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages