Disconsolate Art

Author / Editor
Seaman, Myra.

Title
Disconsolate Art

Published
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 139-49.

Description
Rejects conventional readings of BD as a demonstration that art can transcend suffering; instead shows how BD "enacts . . . a disconsolate poetics, in which pain and suffering perdure."

Alternative Title
Dark Chaucer: An Assortment.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess