Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Problem of Lay and Religious Self-Formation

Author / Editor
Kudo, Yoshinobu.

Title
Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Problem of Lay and Religious Self-Formation

Published
Geibun-Kenkyu (Keio University) 106 (2014): 1-16.

Description
Contends that in SNT Cecilia's "sense of incongruity between inner self and social definition" is directed to a pious lay audience. Argues that the Second Nun's use of the word "bisynesse obfuscates" what the tale has to convey to her lay audience

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies