Reading Otherwise: Recovering the Subject in the "Book of the Duchess."
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
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.