Chaucer's Chain of LoveThis book traces the thematic and structural implication for Chaucer's poetry of the chain of love between God and his creation, an image used by the Platonist philosophers of Chaucer's day, as well as by the church as a metaphor for God's providential love. As a structural principle, the chain of love is the intermediary between constituents of time, space, and words. |
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... speech . Nothing reveals his ignorance of self and Criseyde better than the comic pathos of his speaking love just before and after its consummation . On the blissful night when Pandarus comes to the patient Troilus waiting in cramped ...
... speech . Nothing reveals his ignorance of self and Criseyde better than the comic pathos of his speaking love just before and after its consummation . On the blissful night when Pandarus comes to the patient Troilus waiting in cramped ...
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... speech . Only the mute can confess without oral utterance . Ex verbis enim tuis iustificaberis et ex verbis tuis condemnaberis [ By your words you will be acquitted and by your words condemned ] says the evangile ( Matthew 12 , 37 ) ...
... speech . Only the mute can confess without oral utterance . Ex verbis enim tuis iustificaberis et ex verbis tuis condemnaberis [ By your words you will be acquitted and by your words condemned ] says the evangile ( Matthew 12 , 37 ) ...
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... speech , but the following references are representative . Judith Ferster , Chaucer on Interpretation ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 ) , 23 , offers three ways to read it : as an echo of universal order , as a fiction ...
... speech , but the following references are representative . Judith Ferster , Chaucer on Interpretation ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 ) , 23 , offers three ways to read it : as an echo of universal order , as a fiction ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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