Ambiguous Icons: Chaucer's Knight, Parson and Plowman
- Author / Editor
- Oliver, Paul.
Ambiguous Icons: Chaucer's Knight, Parson and Plowman
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 82-92.
- Description
- Comments on several stylistic device of characterization in GP and the effects they produce: the Knight is earnest by obsolete, and spiritually ambiguous; the Parson, an exaggerated stereotype, cut off from people by lack of realistic details; the Plowman, hard to visualize because of abstraction.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Style and Versification
- Knight and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale