A Brief Comparison of the "Knight's Tale" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Author / Editor
- Hargest-Gorzelak, Anna.
A Brief Comparison of the "Knight's Tale" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Published
- Roczniki Humanistyczne 15.3 (1967): 91-102.
- Description
- Comments on various aspects of KnT and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (sources, dates, verse forms, etc.), discussing most extensively their uses of rhetorical devices. Finds KnT to be inferior because in it "form dictates to matter" and because the poem lacks the Gawain-poet's "organic use" of subtle characterzation and structural parallelisms. Focuses on details of the lists in KnT (1.1884ff.) and Gawain's view of Bercilak's castle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification