Lavinia Greenlaw's Response to Chaucer and the Poetics of Memory.

Description: Compares the models of memory presented by the narrators of Chaucer's TC and Lavinia Greenlaw's "A Double Sorrow," her poetic adaptation of TC published in 2014. Argues that while Chaucer's narrator uses classical models of memory that involve the process of retrieving and presenting a sequence of images to tell his story, Greenlaw's text represents memory as more personal and autobiographical. Despite their different approaches to memory and history, Chaucer and Greenlaw share a focus on investigating the relationship between memory and emotion, particularly love.

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