Chaucer's 'Troilus': Philosophy and Language
- Author / Editor
- Reichl, Karl.
Chaucer's 'Troilus': Philosophy and Language
- Published
- Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 133-52.
- Description
- In TC, philosophical terminology "provides a continual gloss on the text." A philosophical reading of the poem--free will versus determinism, fantasy versus reason--does not, however, detract from the poem's narrative, "an intensely moving story of human love."
- Alternative Title
- The European Tragedy of Troilus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.