The Still Point: Artifice in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Kronlins, Ieva.

Title
The Still Point: Artifice in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Centerpoint 1.1 (1974): 73-81.

Description
Comments on three "distancing-involving" devices in BD--the narrative pose, structural arrangement, and the "self-reflexive consideration of the poem's poetics." Include a brief Jungian analysis of the dream.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.