Specularita e parodia: La mise en abyme' nel 'Nun's Priest's Tale' di Chaucer

Author / Editor
D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.

Title
Specularita e parodia: La mise en abyme' nel 'Nun's Priest's Tale' di Chaucer

Published
Donatello Izzo, ed. Il racconto allo specchio: 'Mise en abyme' tradizione narrative. Testi & Studi, no. 2 (Rome: Nuova Arnica, 1990), pp. 37-66.

Description
Surveys medieval literary uses of "mise en abyme" and assesses how the interpolated tales of NPT break up the linear narrative and produce a "mise en abyme" effect. The contrasting structures of NPT and MkT parallel the contrast between text and world.

Contributor
Izzo, Donatello,ed.

Alternative Title
Il Racconto allo specchio: "Mise en abyme" tradizione narrativa.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Monk and His Tale.