"Concordia discors": The Traveling Heart as Foreign Object in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Friedrich, Jennie.

Title
"Concordia discors": The Traveling Heart as Foreign Object in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 35-52.

Description
Explores relations among imagery of hearts, transplanting, "bodily estrangement," and travel in TC, focusing on Criseyde, her brooch, her dream of the eagle, her departure from Troy, and how she "begins to embody foreignness by the end of the narrative."

Alternative Title
The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification