Genre and Gender in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kowalik, Barbara.
Genre and Gender in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Published
- Maria Edelson, ed. Studies in Literature and Culture in Honour of Professor Irena Janicka-Świderska Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2002), pp. 100-110.
- Description
- Increased concern with female characters in KnT distinguishes it from traditional epics, and its presentation of women and gender relationships embodies "evolutionary changes" in the romance genre. Nonetheless, Emily is imprisoned at the end "in yet another impoverished pattern of femininity designed for her by men."
- Contributor
- Edelson, Maria, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Literature and Culture in Honour of Professor Irena Janicka-Świderska.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.