Response: The "Book of the Duchess," Guillaume de Machaut, and the Image of the Archive

Author / Editor
Butterfield, Ardis.

Title
Response: The "Book of the Duchess," Guillaume de Machaut, and the Image of the Archive

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 199-212.

Description
Considers how technologies of memory inform reflections on composition, literary relationships, and the elegiac project in BD, engendering a "focused commentary" on the "work of recollection." In this, BD participates in a discursive field shared by several works by Machaut, particularly the "Prologue."

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations