The Fierce Achilles in Chaucer, Gower, and the Gawain Poet
- Author / Editor
- Gasse, Rosanne.
The Fierce Achilles in Chaucer, Gower, and the Gawain Poet
- Published
- E. L. Risden, ed. "Sir Gawain" and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006), pp. 121-34.
- Description
- Gasse reads references to Achilles in TC as indications that the story of Achilles "is clearly the mirror of Troilus's narrative." References to Achilles in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" can help readers understand Chaucer's references.
- Contributor
- Risden, E.L., ed
- Alternative Title
- "Sir Gawain" and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations.