Shapes of Desire : Representing the Body in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'Celestina'

Author / Editor
Moore, Miriam Elizabeth.

Title
Shapes of Desire : Representing the Body in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'Celestina'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3163A, 2001.

Description
Women in TC and Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina" seek to establish themselves and their fates through "control of language," but rhetorical control gives way as men eventually become subjects and women objects of physical desire.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.