Fate and Discipline: A Comparative Study of "The Tale of Heike" and Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Al-Saleh, Asaad.
Fate and Discipline: A Comparative Study of "The Tale of Heike" and Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale."
- Published
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 45.1 (2012): 35-47.
- Description
- Describes the idea of the "servant-become-warrior" in the Japanese "Tale of Heike" and in KnT, commenting on the etymological roots of "samurai" and "knight" and exploring how concepts of determinism, service, and Foucauldian disciplinary power underlie the actions and characterizations in these narratives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Language and Word Studies