T and criseyde Flashcards
Critic on love
Corinne Saunders ‘love is repeatedly portrayed in terms of paradox, ambiguity, duality in Chaucer’s writing.”
`windeatt repetition
Everything has happened and been noticed before; the present is always a repetition, confirming by conforming to an established pattern of commonplaces. For Troilus, by contrast, the present is not a repetition, and is not experienced and felt like one.
Diomede’
Windeatt, Between Diomede’s thinking and speaking Chaucer pursues a chilling distinction in style as in substance which makes its own comment on the character.
C.S. Lewis
‘Troilus is what Chaucer meant it to be – a great poem in praise of love’,
C. S Lewis says proverbs, with allusions such as the proverb about Robin Hood that was known to his audience (2. 861), show how Chaucer ‘medievalizes’ his sources throughout TandC.
`eye guy
Grosseteste (1168-1253), for instance, argued that the visual species was a substance. And this species joined with an emanation from the object viewed to complete vision: ‘the visual species [insuing from the eye] is a substance, shining and radiant like the sun, the radiation of which, when coupled with the radiation from the exterior shining body, entirely completes vision… therefore true perspective is concerned with rays emitted [by the eye].
Roger Bacon is another one: mid-century theorist; ‘the theory of extramission, the visual ray sent out from the pupil.
medieval arguments about visual rays (and there were many) in order to locate the scientific matric of a familiar conceit in medieval erotic poetry: the lover’s gaze that penetrates as an arrow or visual ray, usually through the eye, to wound the heart.
`chacuer eye poem
‘Merciles Beaute’ =
In this poem the implied visual ray connecting eye and object of desire takes the shape, of course, of cupids arrow, which functions in this lyric similar to the wounding look in the Knights tale
The connection between the imagery of love’s fatal glance and medieval optical theory
a mechanical reversal, in which the experience of looking is instantly perceived to be an experience of being looked upon; this is the central visual process, for example, in Merciles Beaute, (‘your eyen two wol slee me sodenly’).
`other so\urce for optic mut-ual gaze
in the lengthy discussion of amatory optics in Chretine’s Cliges, for instances, both soredamours and Alexander say that love had pierced them through the eyes to the heart
`T sees c eye first time critic
Like Palamon, “he is instantly a victim, a feminized and passive recipient of a martial blow or even phallic penetration of the body”
`helen letter =source
Ovid, Heroides XVII (Helen’s Letter to Paris, tr. Grant Showerman)
While it is new, let us rather fight against the love we have begun to feel. A new-kindled flame dies down when sprinkled with but little water. … What will Sparta find to say of me, what all Achaia, what other peoples, what your Troy? What will Priam think of me,
`meter
Rhyme royal: A stanza of seven decasyllabic lines rhyming ababbcc
The basic unit: a 10-stress line made up of five strong and five weak stresses:
x / x / x / x / x / (x)
A rhyme scheme: ababbcc
Or it can split by its syntax into a quintain rhyming ababb followed by a couplet cc. Or a tercet aba followed by two couplets bb cc … The end of line five, where the third b rhyme occurs, is an interesting point.
`pandarus
windeatt: As a ‘partial projection or self-portrait of chaucer himself’.
third. book.muse
Calliope, the muse.of.epic.poetry
book.5.romantic.moments. which.source
Benoits Roman De Troie
`source of architectual allusion by p
geoffrey of vinsauf =Poetria Nova
in geoffrey of vinsauf this image describes the poetic, not the amatory art; its source, moreover, is Boethius’s portrayal of Deus Artifex. there are the making here, in other words, of a comparison between the divine creator. yet flawed artifices of the go-between by pandarus
`word.for.loooking.up. =and.down.the.body
`effictio
