Chaucer's Topsy-Turvy Dante.
- Author / Editor
- McNally, John J.
Chaucer's Topsy-Turvy Dante.
- Published
- Studies in Medieval Culture 2 (1966): 104-10.
- Description
- Reads TC as a "subtle reprobation of courtly love," suggesting that Chaucer's ironic treatment of love is signaled by the placement and timing of allusions to Dante's "Divine Comedy" and by parallels between the structures of the two works, with Book 3 of TC serving as a "pseudo-heaven."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations