The Medieval Erotic Alba: Structure as Meaning
- Author / Editor
- Saville, Jonathan.
The Medieval Erotic Alba: Structure as Meaning
- Published
- New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1972.
- Physical Description
- viii, 315 pp.
- Description
- Characterizes the "alba scene" of TC (3.1408-1533) as "in many ways the culminating point in the medieval development of the genre," even though Chaucer places the scene in the context of tragic mutability, a context unique for the genre. Considers a wide range of English and Continental albas, including brief comments on RvT and Mars. Offers the text of the alba scene in TC as an appendix.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Reeve and His Tale
- Complaint of Mars