Babe: A Twentieth-Century Nun's Priest's Tale?

Author / Editor
Fulwiler, Lavon.

Title
Babe: A Twentieth-Century Nun's Priest's Tale?

Published
CCTE [Conference of College Teachers of English] Studies 61 (1996): 93-101.

Description
Fulwiler looks at how "Babe" and NPT use the genre of animal fable and prosopopoeia to create moral tales. Sentence and solaas combine in "Babe," as in Chaucer, to intrigue the audience into deeper exploration of the story. Via structure, setting, characterization, and typology, "Babe" and Chaucer exhibit a world where both humans and animals are capable of Christian goodness.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations