Intention, Utility, and Chaucer's Retraction

This dissertation situates Chaucer's Retraction in the context of medieval thinking about authorial intention and the utility of literary texts. It culminates in a reading of Chaucer's Retraction that emphasizes the Retraction's rhetorical status as a request for prayer, calls into qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herman, Jason M.
Other Authors: Dahood, Roger
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196042