The Wisdom of the Nun's Priest's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Bloomfield, Morton W.
The Wisdom of the Nun's Priest's Tale
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 70-82.
- Description
- Generically and rhetorically NPT is a fable devoted to the teaching of wisdom, undercut by its mock quality, by its characterization, by its scholastic reasoning; but finally leading us back, on a higher level, to its original didactic purpose. NPT is about the subersion of wisdom and its reinstatement. NPT preaches courage and humanity and sheer delight in mankind's endless ingenuity which even self-deception cannot completely destroy.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.