The End of an Adventure: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Haruta, Setsuko.
The End of an Adventure: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 353-60.
- Description
- Chaucer, in TC, and the Gawain poet "understate" the prowess of their heroes and emphasize the negative aspects of courtly love. The heroes fail to realize their chivalric ideals--Troilus, because he is vulnerable to Criseyde's inconstancy; and Gawain, because (Criseyde-like) he fails to stay loyal.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.