Chaucer and the Poets : An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

Wetherbee, Winthrop

Cornell University Press（2016/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781501707230
• DDC分類 821.1

Full Description

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

Introduction
1. The Narrator, 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