Chaucer and the Poets

An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

AvWinthrop Wetherbee

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer's poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer's profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters' limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9781501707230

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Winthrop Wetherbee is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Cornell University.

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"There is no doubt that this book is one of the most important works, not only on Troilus, but on Chaucer's poetry as a whole, to have appeared in recent years. Without putting forward elaborate theoretical propositions, without an excessive use of secondary material, without unnecessary jargon, Winthrop Wetherbee has written something with which all Chaucerians (and many medievalists) will have to reckon in the future."-Speculum "This book takes a distinguished place in the controversy over Chaucer's reading of the classics and, more generally, over the nature of classical influence in later medieval poetry. Wetherbee argues convincingly that Chaucer knows several of the Latin classics-especially Vergil, Ovid, and Statius-directly, thoroughly, and in sufficient detail to make complicated, subtle allusions to their poetry."-Modern Language Quarterly

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. The Narrator, Troilus, and the Poetic Agenda2. Love Psychology: The Troilus and the Roman de la Rose3. History versus the Individual: Vergil and Ovid in the Troilus4. Thebes and Troy: Statius and Dante's Statius5. Dante and the Troilus6. Character and Action: Criseyde and the Narrator7. Troilus Alone8. The Ending of the Troilus