Chaucer's Fantasy of Pity.
- Author / Editor
- Irvin, Matthew W.
Chaucer's Fantasy of Pity.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 379-96.
- Description
- Examines pity and the construction of pity in KnT in particular to show how Chaucer's use of and changes to the "Teseida "produce a desire for female autonomy that doesn’t threaten male patriarchy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations