Of a Leaden Hue: Chaucerian Non-Mysticism.

Author / Editor
Masciandaro, Nicola.

Title
Of a Leaden Hue: Chaucerian Non-Mysticism.

Published
On the Darkness of the Will ([Italy]: Mimesis, 2018): 37-71.

Description
Studies aspects of "mystical non-mysticism" in Chaucer's poetry. Explores the "nomenclative impotentiality" of the narrator's "non-self-naming" in HF, 1873–82, and his "unknowing" elsewhere in the poem. Comments on the Black Knight's tearless sorrow in BD as "paramystical," and argues that in Chaucer's works "the Canon's Yeoman figures most clearly the dark relation between Chaucer's poetry and the labor of mystical becoming."

Alternative Title
On the Darkness of the Will

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Book of the Duchess
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale