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Chaucer and the Poets : An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde / Winthrop Weatherbee.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501707100
DDC classification:
  • 821.1
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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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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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