The Triumph of Saturn in the Knight's Tale: A Clue to Chaucer's Stance against the Stars
- Author / Editor
- Holtz, Nancy Ann.
The Triumph of Saturn in the Knight's Tale: A Clue to Chaucer's Stance against the Stars
- Published
- Luanne Franke, ed. Literature and the Occult: Essays in Comparative Literature (Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington, 1977), pp. 159-73.
- Description
- Despite his comic depictions of star-obsessed humanity, Chaucer respected astrology; but he did not find astrological determinism absolute. In KnT Palamon gains Emily by enduring the tests of Saturn, who is more neutral.
- Contributor
- Franke, Luanne,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and the Occult: Essays in Comparative Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.