The Mixed Style of the "Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Brindley, D. J.
The Mixed Style of the "Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Published
- English Studies in Africa 7 (1964): 148-56.
- Description
- Demonstrates the "stylistic virtuosity" of NPT, consistent with its "multiple perspective," commenting on the plain style of the widow frame, "cinematic" details in descriptions, the quality and comedy of direct dialogue, the "graver rhetoric of the didactic style," "dramatic economy," etc.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Style and Versification