Amatory Psychology and Amatory Frustration in the Interpretation of the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Kellogg, Alfred L.
Amatory Psychology and Amatory Frustration in the Interpretation of the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Alfred L. Kellogg. Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1972), pp. 59-107.
- Description
- Examines the occasion, structure, and humor of BD, its possible reflections of Chaucer's marriage to Philippa, and the legacy of its heart imagery that derives from Platonic and Arabic thought (Averroes and Ibn Hazm) and the courtly love tradition. The Dreamer, who is separate from but connected to the Narrator as the central figure of the poem, commits four "blunders" in his dialogue with the Black Knight, a dialogue that is infused with serio-comic treatment of the psychology and physiology of love. It may reflect Chaucer's own suffering love when Philippa turned to John of Gaunt.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Life
- Style and Versification