Wonder and Boethian Justice in the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Cooney, Helen.
Wonder and Boethian Justice in the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Eilean Ni Cuilleanain and J.D. Pheifer, eds. Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), pp. 27-58.
- Description
- Briefly examines the role of "wonders," or miracles, in romance and philosophy as background to the lack of justice in Arcite's death. Chaucer is heavily indebted to Boethian thought in TC, but the unsatisfying, even skeptical deployment of such thought in KnT "marks Chaucer's final disengagement" from Boethian consolation.
- Alternative Title
- Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.