The Conquest of Femenye: Desire, Power, and Narrative in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Stein, Robert M.
The Conquest of Femenye: Desire, Power, and Narrative in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Published
- James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 188-205.
- Description
- As the Miller refuses to allow easy closure to KnT, so the Tale's opening is rooted in the uneasy conquest of Femenye. Throughout the Tale, patterns that suggest resolution fail to reach their hoped-for conclusion, indicating the ongoing nature of desire and conflict.
- Alternative Title
- Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.