Memorialization in White: Chaucerian Topology and the "Defaute" of Subjectivity.
- Author / Editor
- Kao, Wan-chuan.
Memorialization in White: Chaucerian Topology and the "Defaute" of Subjectivity.
- Published
- postmedieval 4.3 (2013): 352-63.
- Description
- Argues that "Middle English 'defaute,' signifying both lack and loss, characterizes the work of mourning" in BD, considering the "interplays between the poem's articulations of toponyms and its figurations of 'White' as simultaneously a deceased body of feminine beauty and a virtual map of courtliness." Focuses on consolatory memorialization (by the Dreamer and the Black Knight) that employ the "non-linear and non-geometric topology of time and space."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess