The Semiotics of Character, Trope, and Troilus: The Figural Construction of the Self and the Discourse of Desire in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Paxson, James J.
The Semiotics of Character, Trope, and Troilus: The Figural Construction of the Self and the Discourse of Desire in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 206-26.
- Description
- Reads TC as "an autocritique of the sophisticated rhetorical devices used by medieval poets to create the literature of desire." Examines several instances of apostrophe, pragmapoeia, ethopoeia, and sermocinatio in the poem, exploring relations between human language and noise or emotive utterance and arguing that Chaucer uses devices often associated with allegory.
- Alternative Title
- Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.