April 5, 2019
7:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Room 4406
7:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Room 4406
Chaucer uses a large number of homophonic rhymes in the Book of the
Duchess. The practice formally enacts the substitutions and confusions
that occur at the level of plot. They also invite thinking about two
traditions of medieval thought: a reveling in wordplay and repetition,
but also a suspicion about how language works
