Experience, Language, and Consciousness: 'Troilus and Criseyde,' II, 596-931
- Author / Editor
- Howard, Donald R.
Experience, Language, and Consciousness: 'Troilus and Criseyde,' II, 596-931
- 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. 173-92.
- Description
- Explicates a "series of four scenes" in TC (2.596-931) that enable readers to "know what it feels like to 'be' Criseyde," establishing a fundamental empathy with her by, unusual in the age, seeing "into the mind of a woman." Examines the passage as a soliloquy, exploring its uses of folk wisdom, considering its relations with lyric poetry and novels, and assessing how it depicts the gaps among language, consciousness, and choice.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Style and Versification