'Betwixen hope and drede': Predestination and Suspense in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Diller, Hans-Jurgen.

Title
'Betwixen hope and drede': Predestination and Suspense in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Raimund Borgmeier and Peter Wenzel, eds. Spannung: Studien zur Englischsprachigen Literatur: Fur Ulrich Suerbaum zum 75. Geburtstag (Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001), pp. 36-47.

Description
Explores crossing patterns of suspense in TC: the "maximal audience suspense and minimal participants' suspense" of the early books are reversed in Books 4 and 5. Attitudes toward predestination complicate the patterns.

Contributor
Borgmeier, Raimund, ed.
Wenel, Peter, ed.

Alternative Title
Spannung: Studien zur Englischsprachigen Literatur: Fur Ulrich Suerbaum zum 75

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.