Narrative Structure in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Brenner, Gerry.

Title
Narrative Structure in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Annuale Mediaevale 6 (1965): 5-18.

Description
Describes relations between structure and theme in TC, demonstrating how the poem's pattern of action and verbal parallels induce "classical symmetry" and function as a "metaphor of harmony and order, while an "underlying chaos" of "inverted parallels, ironic foreshadowing, and multiple points of view . . . lends itself to a metaphor of cacophony and disorder." Together, they enforce "duality," and a "realistic view of human involvement."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde