Disembodied Laughter: "Troilus" and the Apotheosis Tradition: A Reexamination of Narrative and Thematic Contexts
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
Disembodied Laughter: "Troilus" and the Apotheosis Tradition: A Reexamination of Narrative and Thematic Contexts
- Published
- Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
- Physical Description
- xii, 178 pp.
- Description
- Studies the "flight episode," Troilus's laughter, and the location of the eighth sphere in TC "against the background of the apotheosis tradition [Lucan, Cicero, Dante, Boccaccio, and various commentaries] and the conventions of classical pneumatology [Stoic and neoplatonic]," exploring the thematic relations of the episode "with the poem as a whole and the epilogue in particular." Also considers relations of the flight episode and the epilogue with the materials Chaucer derived from Boethius's "Consolation" and adapted by incorporating them into a new context, focusing particularly on Boethian views of providence and the human condition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations