The 'Book of the Duchess' as Consolatio
- Author / Editor
- Hamaguchi, Keiko.
The 'Book of the Duchess' as Consolatio
- Published
- Tosa Women's Junior College Journal 3 (1996): 19-35.
- Description
- Argues that BD satisfies the principal features of the consolatio, while recognizing the poem's dream-vision characteristics. Examines dialogue, the frame, the role of narrator-dreamer as narrator-therapist who leads the Black Knight to Blanche--a true superior guide who, in turn, consoles the Knight and her mourners, including John of Guant and Chaucer.
- Reprinted in Keiko Hamaguchi, Chaucer and Women (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2005).
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.