'Moralite' in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Saito, Isamu.

Title
'Moralite' in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 346-55.

Description
The Nun's Priest's pronouncement, "Taketh fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille," has been interpreted exegetically. Scriptural exegesis, however, is invalid for explicating NPT, which is Menippean--dialogic and polyphonic.
(In Japanese.)

Alternative Title
Philologia Anglica.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.