'My Tale Is of a Cock' or, The Problems of Literal Interpretation
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
'My Tale Is of a Cock' or, The Problems of Literal Interpretation
- Published
- Richard G. Newhauser and John A. Alford, eds. Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995), 25-42.
- Description
- The cock of NPT, through correct Latin quotations and their English mistranslations, provides three literal interpretations of scripture.
- By placing the ideological meaning of NPT within the gap between these interpretations--and thus providing a puzzle of determining the correct literal meaning--Chaucer shows his awareness of the pain and pleasure of writing in an "ideological age" and yet, ultimately "justifies the letter by itself, and "forces" us to "stay" within it."
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.