Style as Meaning in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Gardner, John.
Style as Meaning in the 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Language and Style 2 (1969): 143-71.
- Description
- Explores how and in what ways the "psychological realism" of BD is established and reinforced by the verbal and structural repetitions of the poem. Considers the nature of the dream, the view of love, and the interaction of the narrator and the Knight, showing how varieties of rhetorical repetition underscore a concern with how poetry works, condemning mere ornamentation and affirming real commitment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Style and Versification