Chaucer's Imitation and Innovation in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Sudo, Jun.

Title
Chaucer's Imitation and Innovation in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Poetica (Tokyo) 13 (1982): 50-74.

Description
By comparing Chaucer's TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in sounds, grammar, word choice, similes and metaphors, ambiguities, and construction, the article investigates Chaucer's literary and linguistic imitation and humorous innovation.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.