Thursday, November 5, 2015

Postmodern Analysis of The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Knight

Going along with our discussion of the relevancy of the Canterbury Tales in contemporary analysis, here is one reading I have come across that deals with three tales, the Wife's, the Pardoner's, and the Knight's, and looks at them through a rather deconstructionist view which then goes into a great deal of postmodern analysis. Specifically, Leicester attempts to rely on a more psychological view of the tales, and his argument becomes quite different from any that we have discussed in class. Check it out:

Leicester, Henry Marshall. The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales. Berkley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1990. Web. 2 Nov. 2015

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