Semantic, Moral, and Aesthetic Degeneration in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Lockhart, Adrienne.
Semantic, Moral, and Aesthetic Degeneration in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8.2 (1973): 100-18.
- Description
- In TC, Chaucer shows the "inter-relatedness of the moral and the aesthetic" by demonstrating the "corruption and debasement" of key concepts: "honour," "worthiness," "gentilesse," "manhood," and "trouthe." Such debasement reflects the inevitable failure of human pursuit of ideals and the parallel failure of the poet as creator to imitate the divine Creator.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Language and Word Studies