The Tale of Ceïx and Alceone: Alceone's Agency and Gower's 'Audible Mime'
- Author / Editor
- Krummel, Miriamne.
The Tale of Ceïx and Alceone: Alceone's Agency and Gower's 'Audible Mime'
- Published
- Exemplaria 13 : 497-528, 2001.
- Description
- Contrasts Gower's story of Ceyx and Alcyone with versions by Ovid and Chaucer (in BD). Gower imagined a new dramatic possibility in the character of Alcyone and thereby subverted "monolithic notions of culture and gender" (503).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.