Chaucer and the Poets An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

• Yazar: Wetherbee, Winthrop (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cornell University Press 1984
• Konular: The arts; classical literature; Vergil; Dante Alighieri; Troilus and Criseyde; Statius; medieval literature; (alternate spelling of "Vergil" Ovid; Geoffrey Chaucer; Roman de la rose
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

<p>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.<p>

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (256 p.)

ISBN

9781501707230

Erişim

Open Access