'Wommen ... Folwen Alle the Favour of Fortune': A Semiotic Reading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Chewning, Susannah Mary.
'Wommen ... Folwen Alle the Favour of Fortune': A Semiotic Reading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Robert S. Corrington and John Deely, eds. Semiotics 1993 (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), pp. 373-79.
- Description
- Explores Emily's moments of speech and silence in KnT to argue that, at the end of the narrative, she is "the perfect example of the silent signifier," lacking any personal meaning beyond what is inscribed by the prevailing courtly attitudes.
- Contributor
- Corrington, Robert S.,
- Deely, John,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Semiotics 1993.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.