Criseyde’s Secrets and Her Letters in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Yoon Ju Ok
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제34집, 107~128쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.05.31

영문 초록

Troilus and Criseyde is Geoffrey Chaucer’s re-rendering of Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato. In the second and fifth books of this poem, Chaucer presents either in summary or verbatim bodies of letters that are communicated between Troilus and Criseyde. My principal concern with this paper is to investigate the ways in which epistolary materiality is manifested in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, focusing on the letters of Criseyde. My claim is that the ways that Criseyde’s letters are articulated and (re-)presented manifest her complex material and affective realities that she most likely wants to conceal from the recipient Troilus. The reason why her letters constantly feel guarded, ambiguous, evasive, or prevaricating may be inseparable from the precarious circumstances that are beyond her control but she must still navigate through with utmost prudence and deliberation so as to sustain the values that she has been concerned about as a young widow. For the theoretical devices for my argument, I will draw on Gary’s Schneider’s epistolary materiality and Georg Simmel’s account on the peculiars of the letter as a mode of writing.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Criseyde’s First Letter That Would “Fayn”

III. Litera Criseydis and Her Secrets

IV. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde Letter epistolary materiality Litera Criseydis 초서 『트로일러스와 크리세이드』 서간 서간의 물질성크리 세이드의 편지