Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

Wetherbee, Winthrop

ISBN 10: 0801416841 / ISBN 13: 9780801416842

Edité par Cornell University Press, 2016

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Minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Text is unmarked. DJ lightly shelf worn with small discolorations in a mylar cover.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde
• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801416841
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801416842
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

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