An Aspect of Tragedy : A Comparative View of Displaced Heroes in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
An Aspect of Tragedy : A Comparative View of Displaced Heroes in Medieval Literature

Published
Heinz Antor and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters-Studies in English Literatures: Essays Presented to Rdiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Heidelberg: Universittsverlag C. Winter, 1999), pp. 168-74

Description
Compares Chaucer's notion of tragedy, defined and exemplified in MkPT, with that in Japanese "Kishuryuritan" (legends of exiled nobles). Neither view is easily compatible with modern Western notions of tragedy.

Contributor
Antor, Heinz, ed.
Cope, Kevin L, ed.

Alternative Title
Intercultural Encounters-Studies in English Literatures: Essays Presented to Rdiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.