The Knight's Tale and the Limitations of Language (The Boundary Which Words Are)
- Author / Editor
- Tripp, Raymond P. Jr.
The Knight's Tale and the Limitations of Language (The Boundary Which Words Are)
- Published
- Rendezvous 6.1 (1971): 23-28.
- Description
- Explores the "idea of limitation" in KnT, identifying "statements and narrative situations [that are] suggestive of what we cannot know and cannot say." In some ways like the death of Blanche in BD, Arcite's death is inexplicable and inexpressible, given voice only ironically.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Book of the Duchess