Abandoned Women: Studies of an Ovidian Theme in the Works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Hagedorn, Suzanne Christine.
Abandoned Women: Studies of an Ovidian Theme in the Works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2671A-72A.
- Description
- Ovid undercuts epic male heroism, treating the emotional cost to the women deserted by Achilles, Theseus, Ulysses, and Aeneas and casting a shadow on these heroes in the works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer (KnT, LGW, TC). Bakhtin's views illuminate the conflict between Virgilian and Ovidian treatments of Dido in Chaucer's work.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Troilus and Criseyde.