Rereading Guillaume de Machaut's Vision of Love: Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess' as 'Bricolage'

Author / Editor
Palmer, R. Barton.

Title
Rereading Guillaume de Machaut's Vision of Love: Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess' as 'Bricolage'

Published
David Galef, ed. Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998), pp. 169-95.

Description
Argues that in reading BD medieval audiences would also have reread Machaut's "Fonteinne Amoureuse" and recalled other works by Chaucer's predecessor. Chaucer's derivative version of the account of Ceyx and Alcyone "thematizes the story as a rereading," and, drawn from sections in Machaut spoken by women, the Black Knight's complaints feminize him, a radical "translation."

Contributor
Galef, David,ed.

Alternative Title
Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading.

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