Tie Knots and Slip Knots: Sexual Difference and Memory in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Evans, Ruth.
Tie Knots and Slip Knots: Sexual Difference and Memory in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 128-43.
- Description
- Explores memory and gender in TC, focusing on the poem's deployment of the trope of the knot, as representative of both memory and the bond of love. Argues that the poem's use of knots and nets does not easily resolve itself into gender binaries or demonstrate misogynist attitudes to memory. Applies psychoanalytic reading of the logic of courtly love to analysis of TC.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval English Literature (Fannon)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde