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Reading "The Lagoon" and Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" through Edward Said's The World, the Text, and the Critic.(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060622
Author:Reilly, Terry

Using Edward Said's The World, the Text, and the Critic as a critical foundation, I would like to propose that Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" influenced Joseph Conrad's writing of "The Lagoon." I will begin by calling attention to some circumstantial evidence and then focus on the two narratives more specifically. Although I will mention a few instances where elements and features of "The Knight's Tale" map directly onto "The Lagoon," my main interest is to develop a broader comparativistic approach to the two works, one which illuminates similarities in Conrad's and ...

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