Chaucer and the Dialectic of Love: Transformations in the Literary Love Tradition since Marcabru

Author / Editor
Taylor, Mark Norman.

Title
Chaucer and the Dialectic of Love: Transformations in the Literary Love Tradition since Marcabru

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 207A.

Description
The outworn paradigm of courtly love has been discarded but not superseded by a model flexible enough to contain the many variations developed by "moralists and gameplayers." Treats troubadour verse, French and English romances and lyrics, and Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.