 | Theory and the Premodern Text Subjects: English literature -- Middle English 1100–1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory etc; Chaucer Geoffrey d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature and history -- England -- History -- To 1500; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 1; Insisting on the imaginative multiplicity of the text, Strohm finds in theory an augmentation of interpretive possibilitiesOCoan augmentation that sometimes requires respectful disagreement with what a work saysOCoor seems to want knownOCoabout itself. Coupled with this strategic disrespect is a new and amplified form of respectOCofor the text as a meaning-making system, for its unruly power and its unpredictable effects in the world." |
