No Greater Pain: The Ironies of Bliss in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
No Greater Pain: The Ironies of Bliss in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes, eds. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007), pp. 117-32.
- Description
- Allusions to and echoes of Boethius and Dante reinforce Chaucer's concern with the inevitability of sorrow and its relationship to joy in TC. The structure of the poem collaborates with these devices to convey the transitory nature of worldly joy that culminates in Troilus's "Particular Judgment"--his rise to the sphere of Saturnand Mercury's taking of him.
- Alternative Title
- Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.