Espaces réels, espaces imaginaires dans le Troilus and Criseyde de Chaucer
Real and Imaginary Spaces in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

Summary/Abstract: Though an exploration of optical games and of mental and dream images, the present study aims at illustrating the tension between real space (the city of Troy, fortresses, residences, domestic dwellings) and the space of imagination and poetical creation. The relationship between real space and imaginary space was a conventional theme during the Middle Ages; however, in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde this relationship reveals a different conception of the poet’s role at the end of the fourteenth century. Figurative space reflects, therefore, aesthetic as well as social, political and economic changes.

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