Redeemed Language and the Ending of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Pulsiano, Phillip.
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.