Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: A Poet's Response to Ockhamism

Author / Editor
Andretta, Helen Ruth.

Title
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: A Poet's Response to Ockhamism

Published
New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Physical Description
201 pp.

Series
Studies in Humanities, no. 29.

Description
Surveys Ockhamism and Chaucer's exposure to it. Through both a "philosophical interpretation of character" and a close analysis of images, words, and discourse, Andretta maintains Chaucer's allegiance to "manifest truths that are skeptical, and only probable." Considers the epilogue to TC as revealing "the entire poem's message: one must look up beyond thus world to behold the real truth."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.