Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Subtitle: a poet's response to Ockhamism
By: Helen Ruth Andretta.
Series: Studies in the humanities : literature-politics-society,; v. 29; Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 29.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Grove/Atlantic; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; William, of Ockham, ca. 1285-ca. 1349 -- Influence.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Philosophy.; Troilus (Legendary character) in literature.; Philosophy, Medieval, in literature.; Trojan War -- Literature and the war.; Cressida (Fictitious character); Princes in literature.; Women in literature.; Troy (Extinct city) -- In literature.
Description: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde invites philosophical speculation because of its Boethian and nominalist elements. This study comprehensively reviews Ockhamism and its possible influence on Chaucer in his version of the Troy story.

A close analysis of the anachronistic characterizations of Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandarus and of the images, words and discourse of the poem leads to the conclusion that Chaucer was a traditional scholastic thinker, thereby making the poem an artistic negative response to the skeptical philosophy of his time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-196) and index.