'Troilus and Criseyde': The Art of Amplification
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth Jr.
'Troilus and Criseyde': The Art of Amplification
- Published
- Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 155-71.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer amplifies Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in order "to expand our awareness of both the values and limitations . . . of idealized human love," using brief and long expansions as well as lengthy additions. Complexly presented, the love in TC expresses its conflicts and paradoxes as an amplified oxymoron.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Style and Versification