The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xi, 219 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Seven chapters on topics related to Ovid, Augustine, Hloïse and Abélard, Marie de France, Dante, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's relations with Boccaccio and Dante in TC. Grounded in Augustinian, Ovidian, and biblical models, TC (lines 5.540 ff.) explores the impossibility of desire.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.