Irony through Scriptural Allusion: A Note on Chaucer's Prioresse
- Author / Editor
- Knoepflmacher, U. C.
Irony through Scriptural Allusion: A Note on Chaucer's Prioresse
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.3 (1970): 180-83.
- Description
- Suggests that two allusions to Matthew's gospel in the GP description of the Prioress contribute to the "ironic stance" of the description, despite the narrator's "calculated evasiveness."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale