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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale
Frieda Elaine Penninger
其他書名
Fiction Used
出版
Bloomsbury Academic
, 1993-09-08
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Reference
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
081919218X
9780819192189
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NPq6dEuAT1kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This book examines
Troilus and Criseyde
and
The Knight's Tale
as poems which work the same plot to contrasting tragic and joyous endings but for the same purpose, of exploring the folly of electing the temporal world over the eternal. It demonstrates that the tragedy of
Troilus and Criseyde
is a consequence of the folly of relying on Fortune and temporal bliss and works through the pattern of a similar dependence in
The Knight's Tale.
It then develops the portrayal of the protagonists of the poems as Fortune's Fools through a scrutiny of courtship as game of play, of
caritas
and
cupiditas
contrasted with the implications of pity, mercy, grace, and love as used in temporal contexts in the poem but defined theologically elsewhere in Chaucer, and of the limitations of knighthood and chivalry as defined by the world of the poems.
