The Ideas of "Entente" and Translation in Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Peck, Russell A.
The Ideas of "Entente" and Translation in Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale."
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 8 (1967): 17-37.
- Description
- Explores the imagery, action, and word-plays of SNPT to show that they are "concerned with the interplay" between the dark, mundane world and the bright heavenly one. In their "werk," both the Second Nun and Cecilia help others to achieve "their full 'entente' and to be translated" from this world to the next, the latter a world that Almachius fails to perceive. The paired themes anticipate CYPT and are fittingly located near the end of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Language and Word Studies