Chaucer's Gardens: The Language of Convention in Chaucer's Narrative Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Howes, Laura L.
Chaucer's Gardens: The Language of Convention in Chaucer's Narrative Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 1322A.
- Description
- Chaucer employs traditional garden topoi (locus amoenus, hortus conclusus, and paradys d'amours) to draw attention to precursors, to create discrepancy between CT context and tradition, to individualize narrators, and to show literary indebtedness in BD, PF, TC, KnT, MerT, and FranT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Book of the Duchess
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde