UID:
edoccha_9958067685202883
Format:
1 online resource (250 pages)
ISBN:
1-5017-0709-4
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1-5017-0710-8
Content:
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer's poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer's profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history-it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters' limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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A Note on Texts --
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Introduction --
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1. The Narrátor, Troilus, and the Poetic Agenda --
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2. Love Psychology: The Troilus and the Roman de la Rose --
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3. History versus the Individual: Vergil and Ovid in the Troilus --
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4. Thebes and Troy: Statius and Dante's Statius --
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5. Dante and the Troilus --
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6. Character and Action: Criseyde and the Narrator --
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7. Troilus Alone --
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8. The Ending of the Troilus --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8014-1684-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-0723-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.7591/9781501707100
