The 'Book of the Duchess' and the Beginnings of Chaucer's Narratives
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert (R.)
The 'Book of the Duchess' and the Beginnings of Chaucer's Narratives
- Published
- New Literary History 13 (1982): 189-204.
- Description
- Chaucer's concern is in part with forms of subjective experience, expressed in a dialectic between images and "nothing" in a series of lateral movements of the aesthetic imagination. At the end the poet converts retrospection to anticipation, as he comments on the making of this very poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.