The Hagiographic Narrators of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales': The Second Nun, the Man of Law, the Prioress

Author / Editor
Hill, Granville Sydnor.

Title
The Hagiographic Narrators of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales': The Second Nun, the Man of Law, the Prioress

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 1409A.

Description
The rhetorical and narrative conventions used by Chaucer in his saintly tales reveal him an accomplished hagiographer. An analysis of the narrator's rhetoric in describing the characters in GP produces a better understanding of the relation between the language and characterization of the three hagiographers.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.