Chaucer's First Ovid: Metamorphosis and Poetic Tradition in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
Chaucer's First Ovid: Metamorphosis and Poetic Tradition in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 121-63.
- Description
- In BD, the "Metamorphoses" provides a positive paradigm for exploring the relationships of grief and poetry, whereas Ovid's work yields a negative paradigm for the representation of Fame in HF. Deals with the creative process in dream visions; and fame. Draws on Boethius, Virgil, and Ovid.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.