"If Death Is Just, What Is Injustice?" Illicit Rage in "Rostam and Sohrab" and "The Knight's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Cross, Cameron.
"If Death Is Just, What Is Injustice?" Illicit Rage in "Rostam and Sohrab" and "The Knight's Tale."
- Published
- Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies 48 (2015): 395-422.
- Description
- Uses KnT as a "comparand" in understanding the tension between "outrage and reason" in the tale of Rostam and Sohrab in Fardowsi's medieval Persian frame-tale narrative "Shahnameh" (Book of Kings). Like Fardowsi's, Chaucer's Tale struggles and ultimately fails to console rationally the human despair and rage that result from disorder in the cosmos. Includes discussion of narrative frames and Boethian concerns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations