Chaucer and the Continental Tradition: A Study in Neoplatonic Influences
- Author / Editor
- Dolan, Michael James
Chaucer and the Continental Tradition: A Study in Neoplatonic Influences
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 4511A-12A.
- Description
- Chaucer's poetry must be read as "in dialogue" with his neoplatonic sources such as Boethius, Macrobius, etc. BD is a study of the root cause of "letargye"--the lack of harmony between the real and the ideal. PF is an analysis of man's pre-lapsarian and post-lapsarian states; KnT and TC present men suffering from types of "letargye".
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.