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@article{ART001173958},
author={Yejung Choi},
title={Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2005},
number={53},
pages={199-229}

TY - JOUR
AU - Yejung Choi
TI - Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2005
VL - null
IS - 53
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 199
EP - 229
SN - 1598-3021
AB - In the Middle Ages, raptus connoted not only forced coitus, sexual assault, abduction, but also seizure, dragging off, transportation, appropriation and theft. The English derivatives, rape and ravish had almost the same connotation. The glissement of the seemingly disparate meanings in these words reveal that women were regarded as a property of men and that they were denied subjectivity, particularly in sexual matters. Troilus and Criseyde witnesses the aetheticization or eroticization of rape in Chaucer's England. Abduction, rape and marriage or love were interchangeable terms just as women were thought to be exchangeable goods among men. Dreams of Pandarus, Criseyde and Troilus display their clandestine desire of rape which is represented to be indistinguishable from love. Bird imagery embedded in the inception and consummation of the love of Troilus and Criseyde show their conscious or unconscious involvement in rape. Cassandra's historiography which emphasizes causation and recurrent historical patterns suggests that the suffering of the women in Thebes will recur in the lives of the women involved in the Trojan war.
KW - raptus;rape;ravish;Chaucer;antifeminism;Troy;Troilus;Criseyde;Helen;Cassandra
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Yejung Choi. (2005). Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 53, 199-229.

Yejung Choi. 2005, "Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, no.53, pp.199-229.

Yejung Choi "Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 53 pp.199-229 (2005) : 199.

Yejung Choi. Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde. 2005; 53 : 199-229.

Yejung Choi. "Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University no.53(2005) : 199-229.

Yejung Choi. Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 53, 199-229.

Yejung Choi. Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2005; 53 199-229.

Yejung Choi. Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde. 2005; 53 : 199-229.

Yejung Choi. "Rape and Ravishment in Troilus and Criseyde" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University no.53(2005) : 199-229.