The Hagiographic Narrators of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales': The Second Nun, the Man of Law, the Prioress
- Author / Editor
- Hill, Granville Sydnor.
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.