Tellability and Politeness in 'The Miller's Tale': First Steps in Literary Pragmatics
- Author / Editor
- Sell, Roger D.
Tellability and Politeness in 'The Miller's Tale': First Steps in Literary Pragmatics
- Published
- English Studies 66 (1985): 446-512
- Description
- Making the improbable seem momentarily probable, Chaucer risks offending his audience by telling a bawdy story, but he excuses himself and blames the Miller for any breach of good taste. Chaucer catches the reader off guard with the abrupt denouement.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.