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Chaucer and the Theory Wars: Attack of the Historicists? The Psychoanalysts Strike Back? Or a New Hope?
Author(s) -
Sebastian John T.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00353.x
Subject(s) - historicism , criticism , new historicism , psychoanalysis , poetry , literature , philosophy , psychology , art
This essay surveys recent exchanges between historicism and psychoanalysis in the criticism of Chaucer’s poetry. Some of these exchanges have been heated. In some accounts the differences appear irreconcilable. However, other accounts suggest that historicism and psychoanalysis share much common ground.