'Winkers' and 'Janglers': Teller/Listener/Reader Response in the 'Monk's Tale,' the Link, and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Jensen, Emily.
'Winkers' and 'Janglers': Teller/Listener/Reader Response in the 'Monk's Tale,' the Link, and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 183-95.
- Description
- As a triad, MkT, Mk-NPL, and NPT present such a variety of motifs, themes, and nuances that one must be mindful of their multiplicity and not reduce their reading to a "hevy" tragedy or a performance of "sentence" alone, thus falling prey to the warning in NPT: one must neither close one's eyes when they should be open nor open one's mouth when it should be shut.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.