Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences

By Kathy Cawsey

Book Overview

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 ma

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032928085
• ISBN13: 9781032928081
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"