"Certaynly His Noble Sayenges Can I Not Amende": Thomas Usk and Troilus and Criseyde

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Turner
Keyword(s):  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Thomas Usk

Medieval and Modern in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

PMLA ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
James I. Wimsatt
Keyword(s):  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Scholarly Attention

While recent scholarly attention to the medieval aspects of Troilus and Criseyde has overshadowed the older custom of critics to associate it with modern fiction, its kinship with such later literature is authentic. The poem’s plentiful medieval materials—for which Chaucer draws extensively on Dante, Machaut, and Boethius—invite interpretation of it in terms of traditional modes: the epic, the romance, and the philosophical demonstration. Chaucer, however, completely undercuts the usual effects of these modes with irony, at the same time employing the elements and techniques of realism. The irony cooperates with the realism to make a work that finally is like modern fiction in identifying the essentially human through the particularity of its presentation.

No, I’m not… Chaucer? The Arabic motif in Troilus and Criseyde and Pushkin’s ‘The Prophet’ [‘Prorok’]

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-153
Author(s):  
A. A. Shapovalova
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Common Motif ◽  
Courtly Romance ◽  
Genetic Source ◽  
The Common

The article discusses two works of literature: Troilus and Criseyde, a long poem written in the genre of courtly romance (1382–1386/1387) by G. Chaucer, and ‘The Prophet’ [‘Prorok’] (1826), a poem by A. Pushkin. The two works are compared due to a common motif: the opening of the chest and swapping of the heart as a sign of the person’s spiritual regeneration. In her comparative analysis of the two poems, the author attempts to identify their common source or the likelihood of direct contact — whether Pushkin had come across Chaucer’s work and borrowed the motif directly. As for the heart being replaced, it seems both poets may have been inspired by several biblical stories. Further analysis of the motif of the chest being opened suggests that the research should focus on the Arabic tradition alone and take into account the potential influence of Islamic religious texts on Pushkin as well as Chaucer. Relying on the available data about Russian and European relations with the Arabic world, the article hypothesises about the ways in which the motif in question could have reached each of the poets. The author names the Quran as the common genetic source of the two poems.

Troilus and Criseyde and the ‘Parfit Blisse of Love’

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Simone Fryer-Bovair
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Consolation Of Philosophy ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines Chaucer’s response to Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy in Troilus and Criseyde. I argue that Chaucer responds to a tension that he perceives in Boethius’s Consolation regarding the relationship between this world and the divine, in particular the value to be placed on romantic love. This tension is at the heart of the most recent critical discussion of Boethius’s text. I consider the morally improving qualities of romantic love and suggest that Chaucer envisages a version of romantic love that is a bridge between this world and the divine, rather than a divide.

scholarly journals Pandarus Quotes Ovid in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Book One of Troilus and Criseyde

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Antoni Bobrowski
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Courtly Love ◽  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The medieval epic poem Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer describes the history of unhappy love with the Trojan War in the background. The story is constructed in the convention of courtly love, and the author draws abundantly from a range of plot motifs preserved in the ancient literary tradition. The article discusses the way of intertextual use of Ovid’s Heroides 5 in the course of events told in Book One of the poem.

Secularizing the Word: Conversion Models in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dabney Anderson Bankert
Keyword(s):  
Troilus And Criseyde
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