Transitions and Meaning in "The Book of the Duchess."
- Author / Editor
- Crampton, Georgia Ronan.
Transitions and Meaning in "The Book of the Duchess."
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62 (1963): 486-500.
- Description
- Assesses the transitions in BD as devices Chaucer uses to "direct the reader toward the hard statements [the poem] makes about deprivation, consolation, the hazards of fortune and the consequences of decision." Divisions in the conversation between dreamer and Black Knight are "stages in an exploration of the fortune-free will theme."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
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