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Autore |
Wetherbee Winthrop <1938-> |
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Titolo |
Chaucer and the Poets : An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde / / Winthrop Wetherbee |
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Cornell University Press, 1984 |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1984 |
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©1984 |
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ISBN |
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1-5017-0709-4 |
1-5017-0710-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Love in literature |
Cressida (Fictitious character) |
Trojan War - Literature and the war |
Troilus (Legendary character) in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Texts -- Introduction -- 1. The Narrátor, Troilus, and the Poetic Agenda -- 2. Love Psychology: The Troilus and the Roman de la Rose -- 3. History versus the Individual: Vergil and Ovid in the Troilus -- 4. Thebes and Troy: Statius and Dante's Statius -- 5. Dante and the Troilus -- 6. Character and Action: Criseyde and the Narrator -- 7. Troilus Alone -- 8. The Ending of the Troilus -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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