Chaucer's Kneeling Friar

Author / Editor
Saito, Isamu.

Title
Chaucer's Kneeling Friar

Published
Poetica: An Internatioanl Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 41 (1994): 51-58.

Description
The two references to kneeling in SumT help create irony. The friar's kneeling in the first half of the tale "forecasts" his "spiritual downfall" in the last scene.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.