Chaucer's Selective 'Remembraunce' : Ironies of 'Fyn Loving' and the Ideal Feminine

Author / Editor
Feimer, Joel.

Title
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.