'Auctoritee' and the Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Justman, Stewart.
'Auctoritee' and the Knight's Tale
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 39 (1978): 3-14.
- Description
- The workings of "auctoritee" in KnT are at odds with established--especially Boethian--norms. All authority in KnT is overthrown. Habitually in Chaucer's works, authority is subjected to uncongenial contexts and the presumption of irony. As a model for what follows, KnT does not assert the timeless, formal nature of good, but its ambiguities and contradictions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.