Chaucer's Haunted Aesthetics: Mimesis and Trauma in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Chaucer's Haunted Aesthetics: Mimesis and Trauma in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- College English 72.3 (2010): 226-47.
- Description
- Ingham uses Freud's meditations on Tasso's knight Tancred as a model for how literary texts mediate between the repetitive and the representational aspects of trauma. Chaucer's TC resonates with trauma in the work's historical context, in the abandonment of Criseyde by Calchas and the trafficking of women, and in its depiction of Pandarus's transfer of "wo" to Troilus. The allusions to Procne and Philomela in the poem problematize the voicing of trauma.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.