Chaucer's Allergy

Author / Editor
Takada, Yasunari.

Title
Chaucer's Allergy

Published
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 73 (2010): 55-65.

Description
Argues that Chaucer is "constitutionally sensitive" to intellectual realism, preferring sensory experientialism instead. In BD, as in HF and PF, inconclusiveness and tentativeness defer rather than console and encourage a "broader mundane perspective" than is traditional in the dream vision genre.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations