'Sentence' and 'Solaas': Proverbs and Consolation in the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Luxon, Thomas H.
'Sentence' and 'Solaas': Proverbs and Consolation in the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 94-111.
- Description
- Frequent proverbs prevent the discovery of true comfort. The reader is "distanced" from the events in KnT and reminded that true "solaas" is found only through very long, very difficult, and individual struggle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.