The Correction of a Descriptive Schema: Some 'Buts' in Barbour and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Grossman, Judith.
The Correction of a Descriptive Schema: Some 'Buts' in Barbour and Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 41-54.
- Description
- John Barbour in "The Bruce" (1375) depicts Sir James Douglas as conforming to the knightly ideal in character and manner,but not in physical appearance. In Chaucer's TC, Criseyde occasionally departs from the pattern of idealized heroine. Through observing the complexity of individuals, Barbour and Chaucer develop a new criterion for criticizing and correcting prescribed descriptions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.