The Invisible Siege - The Depiction of Warfare in the Poetry of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Meecham-Jones, Simon.
The Invisible Siege - The Depiction of Warfare in the Poetry of Chaucer
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, Francoise Le Saux, and Neil Thomas, eds. Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), pp. 147-67.
- Description
- In TC, Chaucer avoids focusing on war, revealing his awareness of its importance in perpetrating the aristocratic culture of his day, as well as his need to evade the expectations imposed on him as a writer. Conflict and the psychological disjunction caused by war are granted a potent but implicit significance in the poem, indicating Chaucer's conviction that writers are responsible for the ethical effect of their writing on future audiences.
- Contributor
- Saunders, Corinne, ed.
- Le Saux, Francoise, ed.
- Thomas, Neil, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.