Readers in/of 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published: Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 1 (1988): 81-105.

Description: The widely separate and influential readings of TC by E. Talbot Donaldson and D. W. Robertson, Jr., while based on diametrically opposed theoretical principles, nevertheless find themselves in areement by virtue of their attempt to effect some manner of control over disorder in the text. TCs narrator invokes Christian doctrine to wrestle order and fulfillment from the troubling story.; Revised as Chapter one of the author's Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).