Between the Motion and the Act: Intentions and Ends in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Osberg, Richard H.
Between the Motion and the Act: Intentions and Ends in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- ELH 48 (1981): 257-70.
- Description
- TC is a thoroughly Christian poem in which characters of a pagan past bring about through their actions the contrary of their expectations, whereas the narrator achieves his purpose exactly, despite his seemingly varied tones. Thus the palinode operates not as contradiction but as logical outcome of the narrator's Christian intent.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.