Morality Ovidized: Sententiousness and the Aphoristic Moment in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Chapin, Arthur.
Morality Ovidized: Sententiousness and the Aphoristic Moment in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Yale Journal of Criticism 8:1 (1995): 7-33.
- Description
- Compares the comic treatment of sententiousness in NPT with modern philosophical uses of aphorism. Both are "Menippean" in their contrasts of high and low discourse, and both ask us to perceive their points rather than to understand conceptually.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.