Blanche
- Author / Editor
- Ellmann, Maud.
Blanche
- Published
- Jeremy Hawthorn, ed. Criticism and Critical Theory. Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, 2d ser. (London: Arnold, 1984), pp. 98-110.
- Series
- Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies, 2d ser.
- Description
- BD discursively performs the act of burial. Blanche's death is comparable to Freud's "primal scene"; her "whiteness" traces primordial obliteration; as in Lacan, narrative arises in loss.
- Contributor
- Hawthorn, Jeremy, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Criticism and Critical Theory.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.