Dilation, Design, and Didacticism in Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Kinney, Clare Regan.

Title
Dilation, Design, and Didacticism in Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Clare Regan Kinney, Strategies of Poetic Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 31-68.

Description
Considers TC as a narrative poem in relation to Boccaccio's Filostrato, exploring three narrative "designs" highlighted by the comparison: additive, goal-resistent dilation; patterned, goal-determining organization; and revisionary interpretation in the ending.

Alternative Title
Strategies of Poetic Narrative.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.