Dilation, Design, and Didacticism in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Kinney, Clare Regan.
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.