The Protagonist as Sufferer: A Critical Inquiry into a Topos in Chaucer and Spenser.
- Author / Editor
- Crampton, Georgia Ronan.
The Protagonist as Sufferer: A Critical Inquiry into a Topos in Chaucer and Spenser.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 28.06 (1967): 2205A.
- Description
- Traces the topos of the sufferer as protagonist in classical, Christian, and late Latin sources and explores it "as an element" in KnT, TC, and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," arguing that Chaucer tends to emphasize "the value of acceptant suffering" while Spenser is more concerned with the "value of action." Considers the imagery of suffering as well as suffering as psychological state.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations