Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Problem of Lay and Religious Self-Formation
- Author / Editor
- Kudo, Yoshinobu.
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