Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the Work of Mourning
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Elizabeth B.
Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the Work of Mourning
- Published
- Exemplaria 20 (2008): 361-84.
- Description
- Edwards discusses the rites and purposes of mourning in KnT in relation to the psychological theories of Freud and Derrida. Contrasts the Freudian account with medieval practices of theology and Purgatory. Tthe pagan setting is necessary to complete the "work of mourning," impossible in a fourteenth-century Christian society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale