Commentary Displacing Text: 'The Nun's Priest's Tale' and the Scholastic Fable Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Wheatley, Edward.
Commentary Displacing Text: 'The Nun's Priest's Tale' and the Scholastic Fable Tradition
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 119-41.
- Description
- Compares the structure and interpretive techniques of NPT with those of scholastic fable commentaries widely used in medieval classrooms, arguing that Chaucer capitalized on these similarities to encourage readers to recognize the inseparability of text and commentary, experience and education.
- Various details of NPT recall the medieval classroom and its texts, and the fable commentaries are reflected in the seriatim arrangement of Chauntecleer's summary of his dream, the various interpretations of Chauntecleer and Pertelote, the fox-and-rooster plot, and the interpretive conclusion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.