Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde - Couverture rigide

Wetherbee, Winthrop

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801416841 ISBN 13 : 9780801416842

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801416841
• ISBN 13: 9780801416842
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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