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Article: Trigg, Stephanie. 2002. Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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Medieval Cultures Series, vol. 30. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $22.95 sc. xxiv + 280 pp.
Near her first monograph's end, Stephanie Trigg reckons that Congenial Souls "no doubt ... has offended or frustrated many readers." Prominent among these are Chaucerians unfriendly to her "refusal to offer a reading of a single Chaucerian poem." Her decision not to do so would seem to stand in direct "contradiction with the whole purpose of writing about Chaucer": surely, so Trigg's apparently cross-purposive decision not to enter into the business of hermeneutics invites the obvious question, "What kind of Chaucerian doesn't interpret Chaucer's poetry?" ...