Religious Practice in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale: Rabbit and/or Duck?

Description: Both PrP and PrT express "affective devotional piety," while simultaneously they are "swollen with reference to targets of Wycliffite polemic." As a result, their Marian generic affiliations and the "collocational patterns" of their diction can and do provoke distinctly orthodox and heterodox responses that are equally valid and probably sequentially evident to Chaucer's audience. Barr includes significant attention to liturgical concerns, the phrase "by rote" (in contrast to "in herte"), and the interpretive process of "inferencing."

Chaucer Subjects: Prioress and Her Tale; Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations; Language and Word Studies