The Interplay of Genres in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Watts, William H.
The Interplay of Genres in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 1224A-1225A.
- Description
- Though read as tragedy, comedy or satire, TC can be understood as "compilatio" or Bakhtinian "polyglossa." With Boccaccio's plot of tragic love, Chaucer incorporates a subtext of Boethian philosophy (as treated by Jean de Meun) and allusions to Dante. Chaucer follows Ockham in showing experience as transcending human constructs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.