Bakhtin, the Novel, and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Sadlek, Gregory M.

Title
Bakhtin, the Novel, and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 87-101.

Description
Defines TC as a novel because it partakes heavily of the linguistic qualities that Bakhtin associates with novelization, including contemporaneity, fusion of genres, and open-endedness. Most important, TC is dialogic in its adaptations of Boccaccio's "Filostrato," courtly conventions, Boethian thought, and Christian outlook.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.