In Defense of Criseyde: A Modern 'Scientific Heroine'
- Author / Editor
- Sanderlin, George.
In Defense of Criseyde: A Modern 'Scientific Heroine'
- Published
- USF Language Quarterly 24 (1986): 47-48.
- Description
- Contrary to contentions of A. C. Spearing and others that Criseyde is a passive heroine "at the mercy of events," Criseyde is a decisive figure who actively takes charge of her own destiny. She is representative of emerging "scientific" intellectual tendencies to weigh new propositions on the basis of their observable merits and relative values rather than judging them on the basis of received truths.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.