'And out of Fables Gret Wysdom Men May Take': Middle English Animal Fables as Vehicles of Moral Instruction
- Author / Editor
- Kamyabee, Mohammad Hadi.
'And out of Fables Gret Wysdom Men May Take': Middle English Animal Fables as Vehicles of Moral Instruction
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 2036A.
- Description
- Discusses how the narrative strategies and implied audiences of animal fables produce the didactic impact of the tales, assessing "The Owl and the Nightingale" and fables by Chaucer (NPT and ManT), Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and Henryson. Also explores the history of the genre.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.