'Sikernesse' and 'Fere' in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- O'Brien, Timothy [D.]
'Sikernesse' and 'Fere' in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 38 (2004): 276-93.
- Description
- Throughout TC, the words "sikernesse" and "fere" are repeated and echoed in other words that "complicate their apparently stable meaning." Thus, the "characters' fear of circumstances" cannot be separated from the "narrator's fears about the slipperiness of the verbal realm in which he operates. Verbal play operates as a "deterministic undercurrent" as well as a mode of knowing in the poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Language and Word Studies.