Addressing the Bed: Towards a Premodern Poetics of Lost Love
- Author / Editor
- Bridges, Margaret.
Addressing the Bed: Towards a Premodern Poetics of Lost Love
- Published
- Dagmar Wieser, Patrick Labarthe, Jean-Paul Avice, eds. Mémoire et Oubli dans le Lyrisme Européen (Paris: Champion, 2008), pp. 311-41.
- Description
- Describes the tradition of the rhetorical topos of the abandoned lover's apostrophe to the bed, considering the "gendered" fetishism of Ariadne's address in LGW, the description of Alceste in LGWP, Troilus's address to the empty house in TC, and Dido in LGW and HF.
- Contributor
- Wieser, Dagmar, ed.
- Labarthe, Patrick, ed.
- Avice, Jean-Paul, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Mémoire et Oubli dans le Lyrisme Européen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Troilus and Criseyde
- House of Fame
- Style and Versification