What the Debate Is and Why It Founders in Fragment A of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Siegel, Marsha.
What the Debate Is and Why It Founders in Fragment A of the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in Philology 82 (1985): 1-24.
- Description
- The fragment considers how well human beings can understand and order reality. KnT and MilT provide positive solutions: KnT through Boethian metaphysics; MilT by restricting sources of causation. The debate founders in RvT and CkT, where subjectivity blinds tellers to the nature of the debate.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.