Metaphor and Exemplum in 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Metaphor and Exemplum in 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 31-51.
- Description
- Argues that exempla should be regarded as essentially metaphorical rather than didactic, and reads NPT as an exemplary tale that parodies the uses of exempla in the other tales of fragment 7, especially MkT.
- Alternative Title
- Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Monk and His Tale