Chaucer's Proleptic Palinode.
- Author / Editor
- Ripplinger, Michelle.
Chaucer's Proleptic Palinode.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 139-69.
- Description
- Reads TC as a "proleptic palinode" that gives Chaucer "something to apologize for" before he writes LGW, modeling his poetic career on Ovid's. Argues that Pandarus "grounds his amatory practice" in Ovid's works, considers Criseyde's and Cassandra's readings of Theban material in relation to Ovid's treatment of female readership, and presents LGW as Chaucer's "own 'Heroides'," a rejection of reductive moralizing interpretation, and a defense of the "ethical value of narrative fiction."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations