Chaucer's "Legend of Dido": Negotiating Worldviews through Narrative Fiction.

Author / Editor
Stadnik, Katarzyna.

Title
Chaucer's "Legend of Dido": Negotiating Worldviews through Narrative Fiction.

Published
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature 23 (2018): 87-114.

Description
Analyzes the "Legend of Dido" in LGW to reveal how narrative serves as a "cognitive tool for shaping worldviews" held within cultural communities. Discusses the "cognitive-cultural underpinnings" and strategies Chaucer uses to tell a fragmentary version of the Dido and Aeneas narrative. Examines how Chaucer’s "epistemic stance" influences the expression of selected social-cultural categories in the story.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations