A TACT Analysis of the Language of Death in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Arthur, Karen.

Title
A TACT Analysis of the Language of Death in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 67-85.

Description
Demonstrates the utility of the text-retrieval program "TACT" by examining references to death and cold in TC. Sketches the "vocabulary" of death in the poem, assesses the words in their contexts (especially Pandarus's threats of death to Criseyde), and contrasts them with Boccaccio's more conventional uses.

Alternative Title
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Language and Word Studies.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.