Male Subjectivity, 'Fin Amor,' and Melancholia in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Hendershot, Cyndy.
Male Subjectivity, 'Fin Amor,' and Melancholia in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Mediaevalia 21 (1996): 1-26.
- Description
- The discourse of "fin amor" places the male subject in a feminine position; in BD, the absence of White problematizes this feminization of the male, producing melancholia that endangers the Black Knight's psychic stability and the dominant fiction of masculine stability. The narrator's attempt to console the Black Knight defends the fiction of masculine wholeness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.