The Whelp in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Description: Surveys Chaucer's references to dogs, showing that his depictions of the animal are generally "pejorative," following a tradition of denunciation by satirists, homilists, and the writers of romances. Argues that the whelp in BD 389ff. is not "sentimental" as usually argued, but rather "serves both to illustrate the dichotomy about to take place in the Dreamer himself and to give meaningful continuity to the hunt."