Author: Francesca Abbate
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226001202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer’s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale’s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted “historic” downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who brings the lovers together in Chaucer’s poem, is here a car mechanic. Chaucer’s narrator tells a story he didn’t author, claiming no power to change the course of events, and the narrator and characters in Troy, Unincorporated struggle against a similar predicament. Aware of themselves as literary constructs, they are paradoxically driven by the desire to be autonomous creatures—tale tellers rather than tales told. Thus, though Troy, Unincorporated follows Chaucer’s plot—Criseyde falls in love with Diomedes after leaving Troy to live with her father, who has broken his hip, and Troilus dies of a drug overdose—it moves beyond Troilus’s death to posit a possible fate for Criseyde on this “litel spot of erthe.”
Troy, Unincorporated
Author: Francesca Abbate
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226001229
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer’s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale’s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted “historic” downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who brings the lovers together in Chaucer’s poem, is here a car mechanic. Chaucer’s narrator tells a story he didn’t author, claiming no power to change the course of events, and the narrator and characters in Troy, Unincorporated struggle against a similar predicament. Aware of themselves as literary constructs, they are paradoxically driven by the desire to be autonomous creatures—tale tellers rather than tales told. Thus, though Troy, Unincorporated follows Chaucer’s plot—Criseyde falls in love with Diomedes after leaving Troy to live with her father, who has broken his hip, and Troilus dies of a drug overdose—it moves beyond Troilus’s death to posit a possible fate for Criseyde on this “litel spot of erthe.”
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226001229
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer’s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale’s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted “historic” downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who brings the lovers together in Chaucer’s poem, is here a car mechanic. Chaucer’s narrator tells a story he didn’t author, claiming no power to change the course of events, and the narrator and characters in Troy, Unincorporated struggle against a similar predicament. Aware of themselves as literary constructs, they are paradoxically driven by the desire to be autonomous creatures—tale tellers rather than tales told. Thus, though Troy, Unincorporated follows Chaucer’s plot—Criseyde falls in love with Diomedes after leaving Troy to live with her father, who has broken his hip, and Troilus dies of a drug overdose—it moves beyond Troilus’s death to posit a possible fate for Criseyde on this “litel spot of erthe.”
Federal Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Annual Report
Author: New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2d District
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Atlantic Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Annual Report of the Public Service Commission, Second District
Author: New York (State). Public Service Commission. Second District
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Category : Electric Utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Report, with accompanying documents.
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Category : Electric Utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Report, with accompanying documents.
Cases on Partnership and Other Unincorporated Associations
Author: Scott Rowley
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Category : Partnership
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Partnership
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Annual Report
Author: New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2nd district
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Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Current Construction Reports
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Category : Building permits
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Building permits
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Census of Population, 1960
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Households
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Category : Households
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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