Chaucer : Beginnings

Author / Editor
Owen, Charles A. (Jr.)

Title
Chaucer : Beginnings

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. 45-66.

Description
Compares and contrasts BD with French sources and analogues and emphasizes the degree to which BD "foreshadows" elements in Chaucer's later works, especially in its reliance on implicit meanings and narrative distance.
On title page and in Table of Contents, author is listed mistakenly as Charles W. Owen.

Contributor
Owen, Charles W.

Alternative Title
Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.

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