The End of Knowledge: The Argus Legend and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Yager, Susan.

Title
The End of Knowledge: The Argus Legend and Chaucer

Published
Allen J. Frantzen, ed. Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in the Middle Ages (N.p.: Illinois Medieval Association, 1993), pp. 15-26

Description
Briefly surveys the tradition in which sight and the many-eyed Argus were figures of either intellectual perception or deception. For Chaucer, in KnT, MerT, WBP, and TC, Argus "typifies a common failing in men"--their inability to comprehend truly the women they seek.

Contributor
Halama, Alta Cools.
Frantzen, Allen J.,ed.

Alternative Title
Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in the Middle Ages.
Essays in Medieval Studies 10 (1993)

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.