Aspects of Order in the Knight's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Halverson, John.
Aspects of Order in the Knight's Tale.
- Published
- Studies in Philology 57 (1960): 606-21.
- Description
- Reinforces studies of structural and thematic order in KnT, identifying a threefold pattern of ordering principles: a backdrop natural order of cycles, rituals, folk customs; the noble social ordering of chivalry and tournament; and the universal, Boethian order of temples, gods, and the heavens.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations