Stalking a Generative Poetics

Author / Editor
Schauber, Ellen,and Ellen Spolsky.

Title
Stalking a Generative Poetics

Published
New Literary History 12 (1981): 397-413.

Description
Readers resolve conflicts by readjusting genre expectations. NPT is a beast fable "told in the rhetoric of epic. The homely moral of the tale is comically inconsistent with the implications of high seriousness in the language."

Contributor
Spolsky, Ellen.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.