An Aesthetic of Permeability : Three Transcapes of the Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Horowitz, Deborah.
An Aesthetic of Permeability : Three Transcapes of the Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 259-79.
- Description
- Horowitz assesses the aesthetic value of BD by focusing on three "transcapes" (through visions): that of the narrator as a literary medium; that of the work's interwoven sources and time spans; and that of the gendered landscape, which is both unstable and constant. The transcapes constitute a closely woven (but simultaneously open) work that is always open to interpretation and in a constant state of flux.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.