Anti-Virgilianism in Late Medieval English Troy Narratives.
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Anti-Virgilianism in Late Medieval English Troy Narratives.
- Published
- Troianalexandrina: Anuario sobre literatura medieval de materia clásica 19 (2019): 293-312.
- Description
- Traces elegiac, tragic, and pseudo-historical traditions in late medieval English narratives of Troy, arguing that they are all "anti-Virgilian, and therefore anti-imperialist" and "also somber, monitory, skeptical and intimately sensitive to the catastrophes of war." Includes comments on works by John Lydgate and Gavin Douglas, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and both LGW and HF, the last two exemplifying the elegiac tradition of Ovid.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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