Love Oft Expressed: Conventions and Irony in Ovid's 'Amores', 'Aucassin et Nicolette', and Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Peter Lewis.
Love Oft Expressed: Conventions and Irony in Ovid's 'Amores', 'Aucassin et Nicolette', and Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 2516-7A.
- Description
- Although classical and medieval rhetorics stress conventional "topoi," love poetry also supposedly emphasizes originality and sincerity. Certain classical and medieval poets including Chaucer ironically play off convention against their own ideas.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.