From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" as a Multilayered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life.
- Author / Editor
- Pigg, Daniel F.
From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" as a Multilayered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life.
- Published
- In Albrecht Classen, ed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side of the Pre-Modern World (Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2021), pp. 347-60.
- Description
- Argues that the "unique aspect" of the depiction of imprisonment in KnT is that the "only liberation that can happen is apparently at the end of this life, which is seen as a prison," hence "hardly a liberation at all." Comments on Chaucer's likely knowledge of material prisons and on how the tale exerts pressure to read imprisonment allegorically.
- Contributor
- Classen, Albrecht, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side of the Pre-Modern World
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale