Chaucer's Dorigen and Boccaccio's Female Voices
- Author / Editor
- Calabrese, Michael.
Chaucer's Dorigen and Boccaccio's Female Voices
- Published
- SAC 29 (2007): 259-92.
- Description
- Hard and soft analogues to Dorigen's conversations with Aurelius in FranT indicate that she is less a victim than someone playfully complicit in "flirtation." Offering "positive rhetorical models," Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan depict women who effectively use language to "rout the advances of unwanted suitors," while Dorigen's words evoke the "inflammation of anxious desire in herself, her neighbor, and her husband."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.