'Inviolable Voice': Philomela and Procne in Dante's 'Purgatorio' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Lutton, Jeannette Hume.
'Inviolable Voice': Philomela and Procne in Dante's 'Purgatorio' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Donald Palumbo, ed. Spectrum of the Fantastic (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988), pp. 3-19.
- Description
- Drawing on the myth of Proche and Philomela, Dante uses birds to symbolize night and day, while Chaucer uses them to symbolize the love of Troilus and Criseyde. Both writers invoke images from the myth to represent love-gone-wrong.
- Contributor
- Palumbo, Donald,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Spectrum of the Fantastic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.