Pandarus's 'Grete Emprise': Narration and Subjectivity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Description: Modarelli examines the characterization of Pandarus in TC, particularly the way he acts "with the agency of an author"--one in a "trinity" of authors that includes the narrator and the poet. Using Tzvetan Todorov's formulation of "constructive reading," Modarelli argues that the character of Pandarus "has no psychological determinism" and thus is open to multiple readings, depending on the "socio-cultural attitudes and beliefs of various readers."