Equivocal Subjectivity in Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Arthur, Karen.
Equivocal Subjectivity in Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Prologue' and 'Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 217-31.
- Description
- Chaucer's choice of this version of the saint's life allows him to portray the interests of a female teller and to fuse masculine and feminine ideals. We hear Cecilia's strident voice and experience her powers of articulation. Further, the hair shirt under the golden robe suggests that she conforms overtly while continuing her self-assertion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.