Styles of Usage in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Gallick, Susan.
Styles of Usage in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 11 (1978): 232-47.
- Description
- NPT parodies the high, middle, and low styles of medieval rhetoric by allowing the animals to speak in all these styles. The animals speak in four styles of usage--intimate, conversational, didactic, and literary.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.