Reading Chaucer 'Ab Ovo': Mock-'Exemplum' in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Travis, Peter W.
Reading Chaucer 'Ab Ovo': Mock-'Exemplum' in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 161-81.
- Description
- In the opening of NPT, Chaucer investigates the exemplary form, both honoring the aesthetic persuasion of Geoffrey of Vinsauf and of Horace and-through parody-undercutting prescriptive notions that narrative must have a predominant sense and readers' expectations that it will.
- Alternative Title
- The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.