Causality and Miracle : Philosophical Perspectives in the "Knight's Tale" and the '"an of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Kaske, R. E.
Causality and Miracle : Philosophical Perspectives in the "Knight's Tale" and the '"an of Law's Tale."
- Published
- David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990) pp. 11-34.
- Description
- KnT and MLT are complementary philosophical narratives. In KnT, Chaucer turns "Boccaccio's narrative of event . . . into a narrative poem about wisdom." The treatment of Fortune is pagan, with Palamon and Arcite representing contrasting patterns of "unphilosophic rebellion" and "Boethian acceptance." Similarly, MLT turns Trevet's "Chronicle" into "thematic romance," but the philosophy is essentially Christian.
- Alternative Title
- Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.