A Note on the Affectivity of Criseyde's 'Pite'

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
A Note on the Affectivity of Criseyde's 'Pite'

Published
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 41 (1994): 19-43.

Description
Charts use of "pite" in Chaucer's works and argues that, as applied to and by Criseyde in TC, it signals transitions in her affections and enables the audience to view her both critically and empathetically.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.