Metaphors of the Self in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Metaphors of the Self in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 79-109.
- Description
- In BD, Chaucer combines a series of sustained unconventional allusions to the Narcissus exemplum from the "Roman de la Rose" with the narrative of Ceyx and Alcyone from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to produce a "moral lesson against suicide" with a concealed "discourse about the self." Also comments on relations among BD, the "Ovide MoraliseĢ," and Machaut's "Fonteinne Amoureuse."
- Alternative Title
- Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations