Flowing Backward to the Source: Criseyde's Promises and the Ethics of Allusion.
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Elizabeth.
Flowing Backward to the Source: Criseyde's Promises and the Ethics of Allusion.
- Published
- Speculum 88 (2013): 681-720.
- Description
- Focuses on Criseyde's two oaths of fidelity in TC (3.1493-1502 and 4.1549-54) for the way that they allusively engage Ovidian narratives; counter the linear temporality of epic; affirm Criseyde's sincerity and "bold idealism"; and compel readers to resist reductive, deterministic reading. Also explores other devices in the poem (especially references to Oenone) that suspend temporality and foreground "alternative narratives of past texts in order to examine the force of Criseyde's intent to be true."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations