'The Book of the Duchess': A Re-Vision in a Dream

Author / Editor
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.

Title
'The Book of the Duchess': A Re-Vision in a Dream

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 2212A.

Description
Aware of both classical and medieval rhetoric, Chaucer in BD undermines traditions of courtly love by juxtaposing the uncomprehending narrator with the knight, an effete psychic double of the narrator who is unable to accept the fact of death.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.