Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde': Some Implications of the Oral Mode

Author / Editor
Knighten, Merrell Audy,Jr.

Title
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde': Some Implications of the Oral Mode

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 8076A.

Description
Chaucer's poetry should be regarded as aural rather than oral. Aural poetry is less formulaic and digressive than poetry composed extemporaneously, but it too has special characteristics since it was to be heard and not read. TC reveals Chaucer's response to this genre.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.