Chaucer

Scholars have spent the past fifteen years reassessing Geoffrey Chaucer through the lens of modern critical theory, and this volume maps that shift. Its contributors reread The Canterbury Tales through feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological approaches, among others. Each method opens the poems in different ways.

The introduction compares what each approach does well and considers how a postmodern Chaucer might be understood as drawing on all of them at once.