The "Knight's Tale" as an Impetus for Pilgrimage.
- Author / Editor
- Westlund, Joseph.
The "Knight's Tale" as an Impetus for Pilgrimage.
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 526-37.
- Description
- Argues that the KnT is "especially suitable for the beginning of the pilgrimage" in CT because it "presents the continual subversion of noble efforts to bring order out of disorder" and because, in comparison with its sources," it poses a "pagan outlook" rather than Christian consolation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations