Chaucer's Double Telling of the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Barnes, Geraldine.
Chaucer's Double Telling of the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Geraldine Barnes, John Gunn, Sonya Jensen, and Lee Jobling, eds. Words and Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1989), pp. 4-12.
- Description
- If Chaucer intended to turn Boccaccio's "Teseida" into a chivalric romance, he did not succeed, "but if his purpose was to make the frequently banal conventions and optimistic outlook of that genre play an ironic counterpoint to the tale's bleak picture of the human condition, the result is a 'tour de force'."
- Alternative Title
- Words and Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and his Tale.