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Author : Ida L. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (919 download)
Download or read book The Double Sorrow of Trolilus : a Study of Ambiguities in Troilus and Criseyde written by Ida L. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247333
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original poetic work that brings alive Chaucer’s great love story, illuminating the psychological drama at its heart. The captivating love story of ill-fated Troilus and Criseyde, first popularized by Chaucer’s poem in the 1380s, is one of the most enduring stories of the English language. In A Double Sorrow, award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw breathes fresh life into the medieval tale through a series of seven-line stanzas, which mimic the form of Chaucer’s original poem. Set during the siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of the Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father defects to the Greeks and persuades them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. Troilus suggests that Criseyde flee with him, but she knows she will be universally condemned and instead pretends to submit to the exchange while promising Troilus that she will find a way to return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks, she soon realizes the impossibility of her promise to Troilus and in despair succumbs to another. In this series of skillfully crafted poetic vignettes, Greenlaw illuminates each small but irrevocable step as these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read, contemporary and timeless.
Author : Eleanor Curry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (829 download)
Download or read book The Fleeting World and Double Sorrows written by Eleanor Curry and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lavinia Greenlaw
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571284566
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book A Double Sorrow written by Lavinia Greenlaw and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs. Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility of her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another. Lavinia Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is neither a translation nor strictly a 'version' of Chaucer's work, but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the medieval poem that refine the psychological drama of the classical story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems. In a series of skillfully crafted seven-line vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to illuminate the intensity with which these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read -contemporary and timeless - that builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of love stories.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199555079
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Troilus and Criseyde written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.
Author : Andrew McClellan Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde written by Andrew McClellan Carter and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. David Benson
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ISBN 13 : 9780367357245
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde written by C. David Benson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. rincipal 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.
