The Knight's Tale and the Limitations of Language (The Boundary Which Words Are)

Author / Editor
Tripp, Raymond P. Jr.

Title
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