Blanche

Author / Editor
Ellmann, Maud.

Title
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.