History and Memory in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Goldberg, Catherine L.
History and Memory in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- WVUPP 44: 34-41, 1998, 1999.
- Description
- In TC, the layering of sources, authors, characters, and language produces a text that "seeks consciously to exist in the present each time it is read." The complex acts of memory among the characters suggest that time is chaotic, yet a "kind of collective memory" draws the narrative into a universal present.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.