Crisis and Ambivalent Futures in Middle English Romance.

Author / Editor
Sanok, Catherine.

Title
Crisis and Ambivalent Futures in Middle English Romance.

Published
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 252-59.

Description
Explores relations among "crisis, ambivalence, and futurity," focusing on TC and "Amis and Amiloun," "assessing Criseyde''s ambivalence about returning to Troy as "an affective correlative of crisis" and Amis's ambivalence about the sacrificial killing of his children for ways that it "eludes the putatively determinative logics of moral causality and biological inheritance."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde