Chaucer and the Poets An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde / Winthrop Wetherbee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetherbee, Winthrop, 1938-

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Knowledge--Literature.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde--Sources.

Love in literature.

Cressida (Fictitious character).

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Troilus (Legendary character) in literature.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 1984

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note on Texts

Introduction

1. The Narrátor, Troilus, and the Poetic Agenda

2. Love Psychology: The Troilus and the Roman de la Rose

3. History versus the Individual: Vergil and Ovid in the Troilus

4. Thebes and Troy: Statius and Dante's Statius

5. Dante and the Troilus

6. Character and Action: Criseyde and the Narrator

7. Troilus Alone

8. The Ending of the Troilus

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501707094

1501707094

9781501707100

1501707108

OCLC:

300745644

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access