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From: Studies in Chaucer’s Hous of Fame[(essay date 1907) In the following essay, Sypherd addresses the overall meaning of The House of Fame. He contests the assumption of previous critics that the poem is autobiographical and states that Chaucer’s primary...
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From:Textual Cultures (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents a textual analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, from the 1807 edition of The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The anonymous editor has attempted to present an edition of the...
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From: Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Lynch describes The House of Fame as a parody of the classic literary genre of the dream poem. She argues that the work deconstructs not only the dreamer’s own ability to...
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From: Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse[(essay date 1996) In the following excerpt, Grudin contends that The Book of the Duchess exemplifies the open-ended nature of Chaucerian discourse. Pointing out that the narrator is only one of several voices showcased...
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From: Poetica[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Phillips examines chapter 10 of The Antiquary, which includes an ekphrasis—a graphic description of a work of visual art, used as a literary device. Phillips explores the...
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From: University of Toronto Quarterly[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, DiLorenzo, acknowledging the challenges that The Book of the Duchess has posed for readers, provides a detailed, sequential reading of the poem. He classifies the work as a...
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From:European English Messenger (Vol. 21, Issue 2)Among John Lydgate's various tributes to Chaucer, one of the most puzzling is his reference to the Book of the Duchess in the Fall of Princes (c. 1438). In the prologue of this lengthy retelling of Boccaccio's De...
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From: Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood: “The Key of All Good Remembrance.”[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Burrow analyzes The Book of the Duchess in the context of medieval ideas of courtesy and politeness. He argues that the dreamer, perfectly aware that the knight’s ladylove is...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The first and most moving of Geoffrey Chaucer's dream visions is an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt. Like other elegies, it confronts the difficulty of offering comfort in words....
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From: Poetica[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Edwards observes that The House of Fame is especially difficult for textual editors to reconstruct due to a unique combination of factors: it is unfinished; it lacks a clear...
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From: South Atlantic Bulletin[(essay date 1975) In the following essay, Johnson argues that The Book of the Duchess resists classification as an elegy because it vacillates between a medieval outlook and a more modern point of view. The poem offers...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The textual history of The Book of the Duchess challenges many spurious traditions encouraged by the apparently disordered state of Chaucer's texts on his death. The lack of contemporary references casts...
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From:British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 2N. S. Thompson Introduction IF JOHN DRYDEN in 1700 was able to propose Geoffrey Chaucer as the “Father of English Poetry,” earlier generations had not only been copious with praise, but also had been quite specific...