Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and the Limits of Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Rasovic, Tiffany
Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and the Limits of Narrative
- Published
- Year's Work in Medievalism 14: 67-79, 1999.
- Description
- Explores in BD Chaucer's attitudes toward language and its (in)ability to communicate successfully. The skepticism or nominalism of BD is modified by indications of the power of "extra-linguistic" symbols and signs, providing some "rescue from despair."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.