Time and the Narrator in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Description: Explores differences between the narrator's depictions of the passing of time in TC. Books 1-4 record events consecutively, with little or no inference of simultaneity of action, and Book 5 shifts abruptly to an "outside-narrator time sequence" whereby the "time streams" of the characters cross and overlap, helping to create sympathy, evoke irony, and "effectively depict the dissolution of love."