Troilus commentary checklist
- Created by: HCLS
- Created on: 16-05-15 23:34
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- Troilus and Criseyde Commentary
- RHYME
- homonyms
- metrical demands
- inversion of syntax
- Latin/French word
- Spelling/dialect
- collocation (familiar/expected rhyme
- Relationship of rhyme words: similarity, difference, ironic contrast
- ALLITERATION
- consonant (clusters)
- relationship of words
- note conventional pairings
- sometimes non-substitutable/not note-worthy
- both visual and phonetic
- Ornate/formal/poetic effect
- ENJAMBMENT
- Function iconically
- imitate/resemble/contrast word meaning
- enjambed: flowing argument, thought, movement, time
- end stopped: certainty, stasis, regularity
- Stanza spatial movement: lines drop down, move across, pause, hesitation, lurch
- enjambed: flowing argument, thought, movement, time
- imitate/resemble/contrast word meaning
- Function iconically
- REPETITION
- Anaphora, polysyndeton, apostrophe, exclamatio
- question significance of repeated 'grammatical'words
- Rhetorical function: overemphasis and artifice
- WORD ORDER/SYNTAX
- Postponement of sentence subject to end of line
- Front-shifting
- Syntactical discontinuity
- Noun-splitting
- Strain/incoherence in syntactical movement
- functions iconically
- METRE
- Headless line: emphatic purpose
- STANZAS
- Drops one line from Boccaccio's Ottava Rima
- Stanzas connected? E.g. concatenation (repetition of words)
- Stanzas as syntactical unit: courtly speech, petition, letter etc
- Subdivision of rhyme splits stanza
- separation of ideas, buildup of argument?
- Wallace: final couplet steadies flow/conclusion/conclusion
- Windeatt: final line proverb
- Wallace: final couplet steadies flow/conclusion/conclusion
- separation of ideas, buildup of argument?
- STYLE
- Elaborate high style/stylistic elevation
- numerous short subordinate clauses (parataxis/hypotaxis)
- French vocabulary
- conditional/subjunctive
- Swearing and oaths
- groups of words united by field of discourse
- formal/elevated address
- courtly love: 2nd person plural
- formal: 'swete', 'dere' etc
- Tragic irony once Criseyde has betrayed Troilus
- formal: 'swete', 'dere' etc
- courtly love: 2nd person plural
- numerous short subordinate clauses (parataxis/hypotaxis)
- contrast between what is outwardly spoken and inwardly thought
- Elaborate high style/stylistic elevation
- RHYME
- DICTION
- Proverbs
- more than in other Chaucerian works
- often unconvincing
- more than in other Chaucerian works
- Oaths
- Asservation: fidelity and constancy
- take on irony towards end of text
- Untitled
- more than in sources
- Asservation: fidelity and constancy
- Heat/cold, light/darkness/binding vs control
- Criseyde as light = irony: says sun will fall from its sphere before she's unfaithful
- Technical legal terms
- Prefix/suffix: emphasis
- Proverbs
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