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.

Title
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.