Hunting and Fortune in the "Book of the Duchess" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Author / Editor
- Grady, Frank.
Hunting and Fortune in the "Book of the Duchess" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 109-24.
- Description
- Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the two “strategically” deploy “paratactic, non-moralising juxtaposition of hunting scenes and 'de casibus' rhetoric" to present their aristocratic protagonists as victims of the "struggle between noble designs and Fortune's utterly predictable (if always untimely) predations."
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
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