Two Boethian Speeches in "Troilus and Criseyde" and Chaucerian Irony.
- Author / Editor
- Elbow, Peter.
Two Boethian Speeches in "Troilus and Criseyde" and Chaucerian Irony.
- Published
- Damon, Phillip, foreward. Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding: Selected Papers from the English Institute (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967), pp. 85-107.
- Description
- Examines Troilus's two speeches on the "problem of free will and determinism" in TC (4.958-1082 and 3.813-40), observing complex irony whereby readers are led to agree with a perspective, then disagree, and then agree again. Chaucer "affirms both positions and denies nothing."
- Contributor
- Damon, Phillip, foreward.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding: Selected Papers from the English Institute.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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