Chaucers "Troilus" und die Höfische Liebe.

Author / Editor
Kleinstück, Johannes.

Title
Chaucers "Troilus" und die Höfische Liebe.

Published
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 193 (1956): 1-14.

Description
Argues that TC is a psychological "novel" insofar as it explores how the lovers' uses of courtly language and conventions disguise their "urgent sensuality" ("drängende Sinnlichkeit"), even from themselves. Compares and contrasts Chaucer's and Boccaccio's versions to show how the English poet amplifies Troilus's and Criseyde's dependency on Pandarus and on the contingencies of Fortune.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations