The Art of Expropriation: Chaucer's Narrator in 'The Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Nolan, Barbara.

Title
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.