Lose Heart, Gain Heaven : The False Reciprocity of Gain and Loss in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Kikuchi, Shigeo.
Lose Heart, Gain Heaven : The False Reciprocity of Gain and Loss in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 102: 427-34, 2001.
- Description
- Dividing TC into eighteen episodes highlights a series of analogous and oppositional relations centering on "ethical debt"; in addition, the poem's action can be charted through four cycles. Similar patterns, in some instances less symmetrical, underlie MilT, RvT, and WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.