Alcyone's Grave: Inscription and Intertextuality in Chaucer, Spenser, and Ovid.

Author / Editor
Espie, Jeff.

Title
Alcyone's Grave: Inscription and Intertextuality in Chaucer, Spenser, and Ovid.

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 97-117.

Description
Highlights the thematic centrality of memorialization, tombs, and inscription in the Ceyx and Alcyone story from Ovid to Chaucer to Spenser. The intertextual relations among these versions is predicated not on the principle of genealogical succession but on transhistorical contiguity imagined as touch.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion