Chaucer and the Poets : An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde / / Winthrop Wetherbee
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Cornell University Press, 1984 |
| Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1984 | |
| ©1984 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 821/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Love in literature |
| Cressida (Fictitious character) | |
| Trojan War - Literature and the war | |
| Troilus (Legendary character) in literature | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | classical literature |
| Vergil | |
| Dante Alighieri | |
| Troilus and Criseyde | |
| Statius | |
| medieval literature | |
| (alternate spelling of "Vergil" Ovid | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| Roman de la rose | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Chaucer and the Poets |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-0709-4 |
| 1-5017-0710-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136646403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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