Chaucer's Selective 'Remembraunce' : Ironies of 'Fyn Loving' and the Ideal Feminine
- Author / Editor
- Feimer, Joel.
Chaucer's Selective 'Remembraunce' : Ironies of 'Fyn Loving' and the Ideal Feminine
- Published
- John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 88-105.
- Description
- Although the narrator's intention in LGW is to praise his heroines for their "trouthe in love," his naiveteĢ leads to an ironic representation of feminine ideals and, ultimately, an underlying antifeminism.
- Alternative Title
- Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.