Writing a Building: Chaucer's Knowledge of the Construction Industry and the Language of the Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hallissy, Margaret.
Writing a Building: Chaucer's Knowledge of the Construction Industry and the Language of the Knight's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32(1998): 239-59.
- Description
- A close reading of passages in KnT reveals Chaucer's close familiarity with the medieval construction industry. Although Chaucer supervised building rather than creating buildings, as a poet, he is supreme master over his own creative process.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.