The 'Present Eternite' of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Lorrah, Jean.

Title
The 'Present Eternite' of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
DAI 30.02 (1969): 688A.

Description
Describes how the Boethian concept of divine (fore)knowledge of eternity underlies various aspects of TC and explores how narrative devices, allusions, the treatment of time, and the epilogue evoke the "illusion of 'present eternite' for the reader in relation to the poem."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations