'Is This a Mannes Herte?': Unmanning Troilus Through Ovidian Allusion
- Author / Editor
- McInerney, Maud Burnett.
'Is This a Mannes Herte?': Unmanning Troilus Through Ovidian Allusion
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Troilus and Criseyde' (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 221-35.
- Description
- Chaucer plays with Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in his characterization of Troilus in bk. 3, examining the nature of masculinity by depicting Troilus as a "man trapped between two literary modes of loving."
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.