Dido's Words: Representing Speech and Consciousness in Ancient and Medieval Narrative.
- Author / Editor
- Contzen, Eva von.
Dido's Words: Representing Speech and Consciousness in Ancient and Medieval Narrative.
- Published
- Jan Alber and Greta Olson, eds. How to Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2018), pp. 79-92.
- Description
- Assesses the characterizations of Dido in HF, LGW, and William Caxton's "Eneydos," analyzing their direct discourse and representations of mental state as examples of how premodern authors present well-known figures from the literary past. Chaucer’s Dido is "far less outspoken and verbose" than Virgil's or Caxton's character, but, influenced by Ovid's "Heroides," her "direct discourse cannot be controlled . . . because her story itself speaks louder than the narrator's voice.”
- Contributor
- Alber, Jan, ed,
Olson, Greta, ed.
- Alternative Title
- How to Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations