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Fate and Discipline: A Comparative Study of The Tale of the Heike and Chaucer’s ‘The Knight’s Tale’
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 2012
- pp. 35-57
- 10.1353/mml.2012.0016
- Article
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Whether they believe they are fated to encounter the vicissitudes of life or whether their faith in impermanence requires them to believe that everything in life is transient, the Chaucerian knights and the Heike samurai are under the thrall of a system of belief that shapes their identity.