'To Knytte up al this Feeste': The Parson's Rhetoric and the Ending of the 'Canterbury Tales',
- Author / Editor
- Finke, Laurie A.
'To Knytte up al this Feeste': The Parson's Rhetoric and the Ending of the 'Canterbury Tales',
- Published
- Leeds Studies in English 15 (1984): 95-107.
- Description
- ParsT is not a moral touchstone for judging all the tales but merely another example of a character's way of ordering his experience of truth through language and deliberate rhetorical patterning. The plain prose style embraces only one side of the dialectic of solemnity and play established in the GP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.