Fabular Jangling and Poetic Vision in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Manning, Stephen.
Fabular Jangling and Poetic Vision in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- South Atlantic Review 52 (1987): 3-16.
- Description
- With all its verbal activity or "jangling," NPT functions as a "metonymy for the nature of poetry itself." Chauntecleer and the Narrator struggle with rhetoric and meaning; the Poet "sees beyond the jangling," transforming apparent absurdity into "a comic understanding of a poet's art."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.