How They Talk: Speech and Meaning in The Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Perryman, Judith C.

Title
How They Talk: Speech and Meaning in The Book of the Duchess'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 85:2 (1984): 227-38.

Description
Attitudes toward grief are revealed in the way the speakers talk. Diction at the end of the poem suggests a resolution of divergent perceptions.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.