The Old Testament of Babylon: A Rereading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Thompson, Charlotte Barclay.
The Old Testament of Babylon: A Rereading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 40.08 (1980): 4612-13A.
- Description
- Reads KnT as a veiled, enigmatic "literary game," disclosing it to be a "pagan analogue of the Old Testament" and a prefiguration of the New, ripe with figurative characters and events, and deeply inscribed with archteypes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale