The Art of Expropriation: Chaucer's Narrator in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Barbara.
The Art of Expropriation: Chaucer's Narrator in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 203-22.
- Description
- In BD Chaucer skillfully breaks with French poetic practice to produce a new kind of poetry. The enigmatic narrator does not participate in established conventions; an insomniac amateur reader, he does not fully understand the matter he presents.
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.