Paradox of Love in Chaucer's "Troilus"
- Author / Editor
- Yuan, Xianjun.
Paradox of Love in Chaucer's "Troilus"
- Published
- Beijing: Peking University Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xi, 190 pp.
- Description
- Reads TC as a "jubilant celebration of earthly love" which "testifies to the accessibility of Christian salvation by means of human love" (xi). Earthly love and divine love are balanced in the poem, with Troilus regarding Criseyde as the "Blessed Virgin" and Pandarus viewing her as a figure of inconstancy. The narrator maintains both perspectives, and the epilogue presents a "Negative Negation of Love."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde