ISBN:
9781501707100
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1501707108
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
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Erscheint auch als Wetherbee, Winthrop Chaucer and the poets
Keywords:
Chaucer, Geoffrey Sources
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Chaucer, Geoffrey Knowledge
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Literature
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Troilus (Legendary character) in literature
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Trojan War Literature and the war
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Cressida (Fictitious character)
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Love in literature
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Troilus (Legendary character) in literature.
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Trojan War Literature and the war.
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Love in literature.
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Cressida (Fictitious character)
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Love in literature
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Troilus (Legendary character) in literature
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Trojan War
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Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400 Troilus and Criseyde
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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