Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Penninger, F. Elaine.

Title
Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
South Atlantic Quarterly 63 (1964): 398-405.

Description
Argues that by "idealizing" reality "into unreality" KnT opens the "question of appearance and reality," a recurrent concern throughout CT which is resolved only in ParsT.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Parson and His Tale