Structure and Irony in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Hardie, J. Keith.
Structure and Irony in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 3.2 (1977): 13-19.
- Description
- Irony generated by the narrator's foreknowledge of the fates of his characters is subsumed to irony generated by the poet's transcendent Christian view of the narrator's limited moral judgments, whose inadequacies are signalled by images of blindness, and by allusions to passages from Statius' "Thebaid" susceptible to orthodox Christian interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.