This is the “Naughty” book.
“Dolores
Cullen has achieved the impossible with Pilgrim Chaucer:
Center Stage: she has sparked within me a real fascination
for the works of Geoffrey Chaucer . . .Pilgrim Chaucer
reveals not only Chaucer’s wit and intellect, but also Cullen’s.”
—Janice
Bartholome,
Editor in Chief, West Covina Weekly
“Dolores Cullen’s work on Chaucer offers some consolation to those
who feel that Chaucer scholarship has become too specialised, too
arcane. Pilgrim
Chaucer is presented and packaged as an ‘iconoclastic’
contribution
to Chaucer criticism. . . . Its avowed ‘iconoclasm’ resides rather
in its refusal to accept the sanitized Chaucerian personality produced
by the
nineteenth and early twentieth century . . . . Cullen thus makes an
interesting
discursive intervention into a field that is normally dominated by
specialists.”
—The Medieval Review,
Stephanie Trigg, University
of Melbourne
“These facts [of the poet’s life] will serve like an actor’s
credits on a theatre program, a documentation of past experiences that
prepared
him for the performance he is about to give. Next we will listen
carefully to
the conversation he has with the Host (with Christ) when it is the
pilgrim poet’s
turn to tell a story. We’ll examine that story—the tale of Sir
Thopas—and I guarantee that you will not find it dull, as it
is reputed
to be. . . . The image you now have of Chaucer will change in the pages
ahead.
The changes will not diminish him as a poet. On the contrary, a better
understanding
of his creative plan, along with what he reveals about himself, will
endow his
image with fullness and life.”
—end
of Preface, Pilgrim
Chaucer: Center Stage
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