In Service of the Flower: Chaucer and the 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Kiser, Lisa Jean.

Title
In Service of the Flower: Chaucer and the 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 4275A.

Description
LGWP reveals the God of Love's misreading of TC and Rom. The stories that follow must be read with Alceste's self-sacrifice and resurrection in mind. With Alceste's powers of "translatio," the sinful pagan lovers rise again to live in Christian poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.