Redeemed Language and the Ending of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Pulsiano, Phillip.

Title
Redeemed Language and the Ending of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Roney, eds. Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature (Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1989), pp. 153-74.

Description
TC explores the "breakdown of language as a vehicle for truth and...knowledge." According to Augustine, language can be redeemed in the Incarnation. Chaucer conveys the "idea of language as a mirror of the divine, and through language we participate in the divine."

Alternative Title
Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.