Both Fixed and Free: Language and Destiny in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Wasserman, Julian N.
Both Fixed and Free: Language and Destiny in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Roney, eds. Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature (Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1989), pp. 194-222.
- Description
- Treats the "ambiguous relationship between 'aventure' and 'tydynges'" mentioned in HF, or one of Chaucer's most frequent themes: Fortune (or Providence) versus necessity, divine prescience, and free will, as seen in KnT and TC. Discusses the "bodily ear" and the "circumscription of the Word" in TC, KnT, MilT; language and Fortune in TC, KnT; the failure of Palamon and Arcite to read signs and the literal answers to prayers in KnT; Troilus and the fate of fiction in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.