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1 online resource (92 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
poetry, creative writing, literature, poetics, trojan war, troy, troilus and criseyde, chaucer, betrayal, identity, tragedy, modernization, car mechanic, wisconsin, depression, romance, lovers, drugs, overdose, autonomy, agency, individuality, lyric monologues, retelling, adaptation, farming, strip malls, storytelling, aging parents, despair, hopelessness, futility, free will, determinism |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde -- Parodies, imitations, etc
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| SUBJECT |
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) fast |
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Troy (Walworth County, Wis. : Town) -- Poetry
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| Subject |
Wisconsin -- Troy (Walworth County : Town)
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| Genre/Form |
Parodies, imitations, etc.
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Poetry
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226001227 |
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0226001229 |
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