Reading Otherwise: Recovering the Subject in the "Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Burger, Glenn.

Title
Reading Otherwise: Recovering the Subject in the "Book of the Duchess."

Published
Exemplaria 5 (1993): 325-41.

Description
The dreamer/narrator's account of the Black Knight and Lady White in BD textualizes their discursive performances, revealing them to be institutionalized discourses desired by the narrator and his audience. The work provides interpretive closure while articulating a site of further communication with its audience.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.