Challenging the Conventions of Dream Vision in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Donnelly, Colleen.
Challenging the Conventions of Dream Vision in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 66 (1987): 421-35.
- Description
- Chaucer's use of sources, traditions, and images leaves his text too open-ended and ambiguous to admit of any single interpretative pattern for the "matere" of BD. Diverse incidents of the poem are united by Chaucer's "structural integrity," revealing a dialectic between his own artistic integrity and earlier traditions in English literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.