Narrative Inclusiveness and Consolatory Dialectic in the 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Walker, Denis.

Title
Narrative Inclusiveness and Consolatory Dialectic in the 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1983): 1-17.

Description
Psychoanalytical criticism provides an unsatisfactory view of BD. The structure is rhetorical and Chaucer "leaves the dialectic unresolved, the syllogism of consolation incomplete."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.