Chaucer: Romances and the Temporality of Confession.

Author / Editor
Tracy, Kisha G.

Title
Chaucer: Romances and the Temporality of Confession.

Published
Kisha G. Tracy. Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 67-92.

Description
Explores the language and operation of confession--especially the importance of remembered transgressions--in Chaucer's depictions of love in TC, BD, and MLT, with Troilus, the Black Knight, and Alla as transgressors, and Pandarus, the BD narrator, and Custance as confessors. In varying ways and degrees, the transgressors in these works undergo transformation through penitential processes, exemplifying Chaucer's way of deepening the psychology of love.

Alternative Title
Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde
Man of Law and His Tale