Tell It All or Not At All: Tact, Tactlessness and Good Advice in The Manciple's Tale, The Tale of Melibee and The Parson's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Greenwood, Maria Katarzyna.
Tell It All or Not At All: Tact, Tactlessness and Good Advice in The Manciple's Tale, The Tale of Melibee and The Parson's Tale
- Published
- Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Paroles et silences dans la littérature anglaise au Moyen Age (Paris : Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2003), pp. 135-54.
- Description
- ManT, Mel, and ParsT are hardly tales at all, but rather a joke, an allegory, and a sermon. Yet they provide interesting comparisons between speakers and listeners, ways of speaking and ways of holding back. Reading between the lines is needed before the wisdom of the works emerges.
- Alternative Title
- Paroles et silences dans la littrature anglaise au Moyen Âge .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.