'The Mystery of the Bed Chamber' : Mnemotechnique and Vision in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Carruthers, Mary [J.]
'The Mystery of the Bed Chamber' : Mnemotechnique and Vision in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess
- 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. 67-87.
- Description
- Medieval memory is inherently social and constructive, playing a central role in the process of composition and thus BD is best understood in the context not of psychology but of rhetoric, as an "act of public mourning, of public remembering."
- Alternative Title
- Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.