College English Jul 2005

Chaucer’s Rape, Southern Racism, and the Pedagogical Ethics of Authorial Malfeasance

Tison Pugh

Abstract

The author considers cases of literary figures whose ethics might make readers uncomfortable—Geoffrey Chaucer’s possible rape of a young woman, Flannery O’Connor’s possible racism—and argues that, even though postmodernism has “killed” the author as an object of critical inquiry, careful attention to questions of authorial and readerly ethics can still play an important role in both our students’ development as critical and engaged readers and our own.

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College English
Published
2005-07-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20054090
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writing pedagogy race and writing
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