Women and Chaucer's Providence: The Clerk's Tale and The Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- La Farge, Catherine.
Women and Chaucer's Providence: The Clerk's Tale and The Knight's Tale
- Published
- John Simons, ed. From Medieval to Medievalism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 69-81.
- Description
- Emelye and Griselda represent humankind. Theseus and Walter are figures of Boethian Providence, figures who implicate its inscrutability if not its caprice. By obscuring the boundaries of literary genres, Chaucer challenges traditional social, political, and spiritual analogies.
- Contributor
- Simons, John, ed.
- Alternative Title
- From Medieval to Medievalism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.