The Ending of Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot.
The Ending of Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Published
- Brown, Arthur, and Peter Foote, eds. Early English and Norse Studies: Presented to Hugh Smith in Honour of His Sixtieth Birthday (London: Methuen, 1963), pp. 26-45.
- Description
- Explores the "literary value" of Chaucer's "pretended inferiority complex on the subject of poetry," commenting on the "modesty convention" (or humility topos) in the GP description of the Prioress, the moralization of NPT, the question of Providence generated by the "demande d'amour" of KnT, and elsewhere. Then explicates through close reading how in the last eighteen stanzas of TC (the so-called Epilogue) Chaucer manipulates his narrator, who is "capable of only a simple view of reality," to achieve an "extraordinarily complex one," and conveys the paradox that humans can move "towards heaven through human experience."
- Contributor
- Brown, Arthur, ed.
Foote, Peter, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Early English and Norse Studies: Presented to High Smith in Honour of His Sixtieth Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Nun's Priest's and His Tale
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