Topical Argument in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
Topical Argument in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 387-408.
- Description
- Argues that lack of historical evidence prevents us from learning much about the composition of BD. An examination of its topoi, however, reveals that the poem begins as a lament, turns into a consolation, and finally becomes an encomium designed to enlist the patronage of John of Gaunt.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.