Courtly Love or Christian Love: Animal Imagery in Book I of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Bjork, Lennart A.
Courtly Love or Christian Love: Animal Imagery in Book I of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Mats Ryden and Lennart A. Bjork, eds. Studies in English Philology, Linguistics, and Literature Presented to Alarik Rynell 7 March 1978. Stockholm Studies in English, no. 46 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1978), pp. 1-20.
- Description
- The courtly love interpretations of TC are not plausible; TC offers a burlesque of courtly love. In support of the exegetical promotion of "caritas," serious flaws in Troilus's character are revealed in animal imagery.
- Contributor
- Ryden, Mats,
- Bjork, Lennart A.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in English Philology, Linguistics, and Literature Presented to Alarik Rynell 7 march 1978.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.