'Mutatio Amoris': Revision and Penitence in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Shoaf, Richard Allen.
'Mutatio Amoris': Revision and Penitence in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 4812A.
- Description
- BD is revisionary art which de-mystifies the language of conventionalized desire and revises the Boethian consolation dialogue. The narrator suffers the same "tristitia" as the knight and must be cured. A confession entails the knight's Augustinian re-iter-ation of "sententia" of his "romaunce" such that at the story's end, the paradigm of meaning is revealed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.