The Rhetorical Construction of Narrator and Narrative in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Bahr, Arthur W.
The Rhetorical Construction of Narrator and Narrative in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Chaucer Review 35: 43-59, 2000.
- Description
- Juxtaposes the various rhetorical styles of BD and its central dialogue to highlight the resolution of the two in the final couplet. Assesses the narrator by comparing his text and its rhetoric and by examining borrowings from Ovid, the figure of the Black Knight, and Chaucerian "trouthe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.