'Wommen ... Folwen Alle the Favour of Fortune': A Semiotic Reading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Chewning, Susannah Mary.

Title
'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.