Glimpsing Medusa: Astoned in the 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- O'Brien, Timothy D.
Glimpsing Medusa: Astoned in the 'Troilus'
- Published
- Quidditas 23 (2002): 33-49.
- Description
- Explores "the ways in which the Medusa figure informs" TC and how "petrification" through astonishment is a recurrent concern in FranT. Neither poem refers directly to Medusa or a gorgon, although each capitalizes on the connotations of "astoned" and mythological associations that derive from Ovid, Boethius, Dante, and patristic tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies