Everyday Wonders and Enigmatic Structures: Riddles from Symphosius to Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Lockhart, Jessica Jane.

Title
Everyday Wonders and Enigmatic Structures: Riddles from Symphosius to Chaucer.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.07 (2017): n.p.

Description
Examines the use of riddling and the structure of riddles as a means of representing "the wondrous in the everyday." Specifically considers Chaucer's use of this in BD and PF. Additionally suggests that the "Secretum philosophorum" is an intertext in HF.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations