Heroic Worlds: 'The Knight's Tale' and 'Beowulf'

Author / Editor
Irving, Edward B.,Jr.

Title
Heroic Worlds: 'The Knight's Tale' and 'Beowulf'

Published
Richard G. Newhauser and John A. Alford, eds. Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995), pp. 43-59.

Description
A comparison of "Beowulf" and KnT reveals that the latter has epic elements such as death, mortality, and the struggle with the chaos inherent in an epic universe.
These parallel themes "help us to better see a dark traditional dimension in Chaucer."

Alternative Title
Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.