Le reve revelateur dans 'Le livre de la Duchesse' de Chaucer: Etudes des mecanismes de la revelation

Author / Editor
Yvernault-Gamaury, Martine.

Title
Le reve revelateur dans 'Le livre de la Duchesse' de Chaucer: Etudes des mecanismes de la revelation

Published
Leo Carruthers, ed. Reves et propheties au Moyen Age. (London and New York: Longman, 1998), pp. 69-98.

Description
Focuses on the function of reality and fiction in Chaucer's BD as influenced by Ovid, Boccaccio's "Amorosa visione," Guillaume de Machaut's "Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse," and "Jugement du roy de Behaigne."
Topics include the relations among sight, vision, and illusion; the nature of oral exchanges (narrative, dialogue, confession, revelation); and how staging represents the vision and its images. The Black Knight's experience gradually awakens his poetic potential and a more perceptive vision of the truth of human living.

Alternative Title
Reves et propheties au Moyen Age.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.