Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and the Limits of Narrative

Author / Editor
Rasovic, Tiffany

Title
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.