Hunting for the Hurt in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Vaughan, Miceal F.
Hunting for the Hurt in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Lingua Humanitatis (Korea International Association for Humanistic Studies in Language) 2.2 : 85-107, 2002.
- Description
- Focusing on orthography, rhyme, "near-rhyme," and meaning, Vaughan suggests that "hunting for the hurt" in BD, and not just the hart, gives prominence to the narrator's unresolved emotional and physical pain. The hert(e)/hart/heart word-play in BD is a "critical commonplace," but the hert(e)/hurt associations (cf. BD 883-84) are equally important.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Language and Word Studies