Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and Spenser's "Daphnaïda."
- Author / Editor
- Wells, Marion.
Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and Spenser's "Daphnaïda."
- Published
- In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 71-93.
- Description
- Drawing on affect theory and psychoanalytic methodologies, considers the relationship between the "awake body" and "emotional utterance" in BD, relating this to notions of "translatio." Highlights the centrality of the Ceyx and Alcyone episode to this topic, exploring its interplay with Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Spenser's "Daphnaïda."
- Alternative Title
- Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Inf;uence and Later Allusion