Disconsolate Art
- Author / Editor
- Seaman, Myra.
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