Chaucer's Lexicon of Love: A Study of Thematically Significant Words in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Silver, Marcia H.
Chaucer's Lexicon of Love: A Study of Thematically Significant Words in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1798A.
- Description
- TC shows Chaucer's ambivalence about the language of courtly love; he uses it denotatively with romantic meaning yet reveals its duplicity through Troilus's idealism, Diomede's cynicism, Pandarus's manipulativeness, and Criseyde's combined sincerity and irony.
- The narrator, unable to handle Criseyde's betrayal, continues to feel sympathy for her.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Language and Word Studies.