Techniques of Alienation in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Techniques of Alienation in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
A. P. Foulkes, ed. The Uses of Criticism (Bern: H. Lang, 1976), pp. 77-95. Reprinted in R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesy": Essays in Criticism. MRTS, no. 104 (Binghamton N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994), pp. 29-46.

Description
In TC Chaucer deliberately uses the technique of alienation or aesthetic distancing through devices that render ordinary characters and situations peculiar and unexpected.

Contributor
Foulkes, A. P., ed.

Alternative Title
Uses of Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.