Dante and the Poetics of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Dante and the Poetics of 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Thomas C. Stillinger, ed. Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer (New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998), pp.243-66.
- Description
- An analysis of the end of TC that reads Troilus's ascent (itself inherently meaningless) as a stage in the progress of the narrator's recognition of the relations between Christian poetry and classical tradition.
- Dante mediates Chaucer's engagement with the classics; in particular, the transformation of Chaucer's narrator at the end of TC parallels Dante's transformation of Statius from pagan to Christian poet.
- Wetherbee provides close reading of parts of the end of TC.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.