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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The University of Arizona.
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196042 |