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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Hardcover)
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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer
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Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world's
great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English
about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by
the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own
profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres, styles, characters
and other competing elements creates a powerful literary experience
for each reader. This book explores the diversity and
contradictions produced by the poem without attempting to resolve
them. It is accessible to those reading the poem for the first
time, but equally stimulating to those who know it well, stressing
the importance of the role of individual readers in response to the
openness of the poem. Although previous criticism tends to
emphasize one or two aspects while ignoring others, Benson argues
all critical readings are of interest because they make one aware
of the poem's many contrasting layers and possibilities. Beginning
with the principal source, Boccaccio's Filostrato, the work
examines the many different elements added to this source; which
contains internal tensions and thus develops Boccaccio's story in a
variety of often contradictory directions. The author considers
Chaucer's treatment of setting, characterization, love, fortune and
religion, showing how these affect the character of the poem and
make it simultaneously more chivalric and comic, more Christian and
more pagan.
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