OPPOSITIONS IN CHAUCER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Boethius' Treatment of Oppositions

2 Alternative Reading of Knight's Tale

3 Contentious Readings of the Nun's Priest's Tale

4 Boethian Elements in Two Speeches in Troilus and Criseyde

5 Freedom and Necessity in Chaucer

6 Chaucer's Eventual Abandonment of Irony

7 The Value of Dialectic