Arcite's Consolation: Boethian Argumentation and the Phenomenology of Drunkenness.
- Author / Editor
- Yu, Wesley Chihyung.
Arcite's Consolation: Boethian Argumentation and the Phenomenology of Drunkenness.
- Published
- Exemplaria 28 (2016): 1-20.
- Description
- Explores how the figure of a drunken man, originating in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "De topicis differentiis," and used by Chaucer in Arcite's complaint in KnT, I.1260–67, "blurs the line between universal and particular" and thereby challenges the categories of traditional argumentation. The figure serves as the "syntactical locus of a dynamic exchange between two authoritative axes of knowledge-making [metaphysics and sensory] that strives to situate temporal conditions." Also comments on the names written in ice in HF.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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