Chaucer's Language of Inevitability
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, W[illiam]. C., Jr.
Chaucer's Language of Inevitability
- Published
- William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 17-27.
- Description
- Exemplifies how Chaucer "frequently presents his characters as victims of a necessity that become meaningful not through its external operation as 'fortune,' but through its inner presence as an experience of 'emotional necessity'," illustrating this theme of the experience of fate in BD, KnT, and MerT. This focus on the relation of fate to personality foreshadows Renaissance sensibility.
- Alternative Title
- New Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Knight and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale