"Leicester performs a full-scale revision of the 'dramatic way of
reading Chaucer, ' the 'character-oriented, dramatic approaches'
that continue to underlie many (perhaps most) current readings of
Chaucer. His well-articulated approach to the "Tales is informed by
immersion in and understanding of current literary-critical theory.
In fact, he makes an important intervention in critical theory
(certainly in medieval literary criticism) in his project of
'recovering the subject' and theorizing its agency after the
evacuation of individual subjectivity by structuralism. He operates
in the knowledge that the human subject is a construct, however, a
knowledge that structuralism provided; Leiscester's is thus best
understood as a 'post-structuralist acitivity.' Along the way, he
does brilliant close readings of thee major "Tales--the Wife of
Bath's, Pardoner's, and Knight's--and the "General Prologue. Very
few writers have asked of and gotten so much from Chaucer's
texts."--Carolyn Dinshaw, author of "Chaucer's Sexual Politics
"A brilliant study of the nature of human subjectivity in
Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales. It responds to some controversial
issues in Chaucer criticism and to relevant questions in modern
psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and sociological theories of
the self. It contributes to both Chaucer studies and modern theory
by giving rich, nuanced, and fruitful readings of three tales. . .
. Leicester's interpretations of the poems are original and
compelling. Having read them, I find them indispensable."--Judith
Ferster, author of "Chaucer on Interpretation
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