Chaucer and the World of Interpretation: The Priest's Letter
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
Chaucer and the World of Interpretation: The Priest's Letter
- Published
- Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 107-32.
- Description
- Discusses the conflict between the letter and the spirit in NPT, providing a short survey of the history of literal interpretation. Chaucer freely accepts the letter as literature without excluding the morality. The Priest makes us turn away from nonliteral exegesis while inviting us to pursue it.
- Alternative Title
- L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains.
- The Medieval Imagination.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.