'White by Black': Chaucer's 'Effect Contraire' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Houston, Gail Turley.

Title
'White by Black': Chaucer's 'Effect Contraire' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Comitatus 15 (1984): 1-9.

Description
In TC, a vision of love and death, Chaucer uses black and white to portray Criseyde as ambiguous: she shares her whiteness with Venus but is linked with death and its symbolic blackness.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.