Artifice and Redemption: Figuration and Failure of Reference in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Hoagwood, Terence Allan.
Artifice and Redemption: Figuration and Failure of Reference in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Studia Monastica 11:2 (1988): 57-68.
- Description
- BD contains analogies within analogies and poems within poems. The poem's subject is the mental movement from figure to embedded figure. The redemption offered in the poem is "the salvation that is opened within the mind as it recedes into analogical spaces. That mental motion, among levels of analogies, is itself a form and a way of salvation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.