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1 online resource (92 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; [Chorus:] Everything is half here; One; [Psyche's Song:] Praise me, I told the water lilies, for I am half-invincible; [Narrator:] Of eighth grade; [Criseyde:] How sadly my friends and I; [Pandarus:] Troilus I said we're just dumb boys you know; [Troilus:] Sniffly weather, the sky all prologue; [Criseyde:] In those days arrows were very magic; [Psyche:] On the walls, the usual Americana; [Pandarus:] We made a sand woman on Harrington Beach; Two; [Cassandra:] The halo--no mere incandescence; [Narrator:] The afternoon grew taller when a boy on Halsted. |
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[Criseyde:] Like the friend following you[Troilus:] I was a boy. I listened to frog song; [Criseyde:] Already I miss Troy; [Pandarus:] Slatternday Crumbday; [Criseyde:] I didn't know who I was, we say; [Troilus:] I watched him paint all he could draw; Three; [Chorus:] We tried to remember; [Narrator:] Our usual consolation of daisies; [Criseyde:] Dear (you know I never / rode horses well); [Troilus:] What lean pickings; [Criseyde:] I knew my would-be lover; [Troilus:] Nightfall when I crossed; [Criseyde:] By night my father's house shines. |
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[Cassandra:] Now the accrual of was. At Booth Lake, the bodyFour; [Chorus:] Then came the sand trucks; [Narrator:] We take the Hoan Bridge home; [Criseyde:] If in any harbor; [Criseyde:] It was like the old world sent me a letter; [Criseyde:] The canister of Ajax glinting on the counter.; [Criseyde:] Daily it storms: dams give out, a lake in the next county; [Chorus:] The way fences open; Notes. |
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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 & rsquo;s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale & rsquo;s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted & ldquo;historic & rdquo; 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 c. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
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Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) |
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Troy (Walworth County, Wis. : Town) -- Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Parodies, imitations, etc.
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Poetry.
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Parodies (Literature)
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Parodies (Literature)
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Poetry.
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Print version: Abbate, Francesca. Troy, Unincorporated. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2012 9780226001203 |
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9780226001227 (electronic book) |
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0226001229 (electronic book) |
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9780226001203 |
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0226001202 |
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