Learning to Behold the Fox: Poetics and Epistemology in Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Travis, Peter W.
Learning to Behold the Fox: Poetics and Epistemology in Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Roland Hagenbuchle and Laura Skandera, eds. Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge (Regensburg: Pustet, 1986), pp. 30-45.
- Series
- Eichstarter Beitrage, Bd. 20: Abteilung Sprache und Literatur.
- Description
- Chaucer's only beast fable, through the catalyst of parody, transforms a "literary primer" to achieve artistic freedom from past determinants. NPT "is an epitome of what Foucault calls the archaeological text," containing every major concern and poetic strategy employed by Chaucer.
- Interpretation of Chauntecleer's dream of the fox challenges reader response and responsibility, the constructs of argument, and the relationship of experience to reason and imagination.
- Contributor
- Hagenbuchle, Roland,
- Skandera, Laura,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.