The Formal Attire of Being: Self-Consciousness and the Representation of Identity in Augustine's 'Confessions,' the Old English 'Beowulf,' and Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Near, Michael Raymond.
The Formal Attire of Being: Self-Consciousness and the Representation of Identity in Augustine's 'Confessions,' the Old English 'Beowulf,' and Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3359A.
- Description
- Characters' sense of identity emerges variously from the varying contexts in which the selves operate. In medieval literature, this sense of identity, allied to function rather than "object-self," is drawn through purpose; "his own romantic vision" fills the center of Troilus's identity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.