The Memory of Joy in "Troilus and Criseyde": Identity and Emotional Temporality.

Author / Editor
Kaempfer, Lucis.

Title
The Memory of Joy in "Troilus and Criseyde": Identity and Emotional Temporality.

Published
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 105-19.

Description
Examines joy in TC--looking forward to it in Books 1 and 2, experiencing it in Book 3, and remembering it in Books 4 and --as aspects of Troilus's identity and of the poem itself. Anticipated joy shapes the characterization of Troilus as a courtly lover, and the "memory of joy makes the ending of the text tragic."

Alternative Title
Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde