Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Nelson, Ingrid.
Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 214 pp.
- Series
- The Middle Ages Series.
- Description
- Asserts that Chaucer's inset lyrics in TC and LGW have a "tactical" quality that gives them flexibility and contingency. In TC, Antigone's song, using both English practices and French and Italian sources, demonstrates "a tension between negotiation and [Petrarchan] absolutism" that reflects the narrative's concern with "individual and communal desires." In LGW, especially Prologue F, lyrics are integrated with exemplary narrative, giving lyric an ethical role and "suspending [exempla's] "drive toward closure."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Legend of Good Women