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Book SynopsisThis unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of emotions to shape and critique complex notions of temporality and textuality. The contributors show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love (and other emotions generated and absorbed by love) as a means of approaching the past and the problem of tradition. Because of the long textual history to which they self-consciously look back, fictions of the Troilus and Criseyde/Cresseid/Cressida-tradition cannot avoid reflecting on the tradition from which they derive and the question of literary tradition itself. As they do so, these texts highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the ability of affect to serve as a prism through which tradition itself can be subjected to critical scrutiny.By focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the medieval/ early modern divide this collection participates in the burgeon
Trade Review'This volume marks a significant contribution to the ongoing scrutiny of the dynamic between Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.'
Rachel Stenner, University of Sheffield, The Spenser Review, May 2016
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Table of Contents1. Introduction – Andrew James Johnston, Elisabeth Kempf and Russell West-Pavlov
2. 'No matter from the heut': passion, value and contingency in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde – John Drakakis
3. Narrators, selves and the discourse of love in Troilus and Cressida, or Chaucer, Brecht and Shakespeare – Ute Berns
4. Changing emotions in Troilus: the crucial year – David Wallace
5. 'Expectation whirls me round': hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida – Kai Wiegandt
6. ' Like an Olympian wrestling: the pause in Troilus and Cressida – Richard Wilson
7. 'What's Hecuba to him?' Absent women and the space of lamentation in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida – Hester Lees-Jeffries
8. Framing emotions in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde – Elisabeth Kempf
9. Value feelings – the economy and axiology of the passions in Troilus and Cressida – Kathrin Bethke
10. The space of desire in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Troy – Paul Strohm
11. Arrogant authorial performances: from Chaucer's Criseyde to Shakespeare's Cressida – Wolfram R. Keller
12. Faces that talk: Chaucer, nature and female beauty – Stephanie Trigg
13. 'Potent raisings': performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare. – Andreas Mahler
14. 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and literary defacement – James Simpson
15. 'Stewed phrase' and aesthetic effect in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: received wisdom and its functions in the reflection, management and performance of passion – Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
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