Ovid's Shadow: Character and Characterization in Early Modern Literature
- Author / Editor
- Milowicki, Edward, and Rawdon Wilson.
Ovid's Shadow: Character and Characterization in Early Modern Literature
- Published
- Neohelicon 22 (1995): 9-47.
- Description
- Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is crucial to the development of characterization in western European literature. Ovid complicates the conventional "divided consciousness" of earlier characterizations through relativism, rationalization, rhetoric ,reduction,and legalism. Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer (examples drawn from TC) carry these techniques into the Renaissance and anticipate development of the novel.
- Contributor
- Wilson, Rawdon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations