Chaucer's Evening Sickness
- Author / Editor
- Stone, Gregory B.
Chaucer's Evening Sickness
- Published
- Gregory B. Stone. The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), pp. 143-98.
- Description
- Deconstructs BD as an example of a work that resists the Renaissance impulses to individualism and the rise of narrative. In BD, lyricism is asserted by the failure of narrative to console, and individualism is undercut by recurrent verbal play on oneness and evenness--e.g., Alcyone as "all-is-one," Octovyen as "octo-even," and the narrator's "evening" sickness. Stone focuses on the "arithmetical discourse" of the poem.
- Alternative Title
- The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistence to the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.