The Body of the Nun's Priest, or, Chaucer's Disseminal Genius
- Author / Editor
- Travis, Peter W.
The Body of the Nun's Priest, or, Chaucer's Disseminal Genius
- Published
- Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 231-47.
- Description
- Travis explores the Host's "hypermasculine vision of literary genius" in Part 7 of CT, especially the Host's comments in MkP, NPP, and NPE. Using parody rather than satire, Chaucer gently exposes the "phallocentric presuppositions" of Western aesthetic tradition in which writing is associated with insemination.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.