Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the Work of Mourning

Author / Editor
Edwards, Elizabeth B.

Title
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