Aspects of Form in the Nun's Priest's Tale.

Author / Editor
Joselyn, M., O. S. B.

Title
Aspects of Form in the Nun's Priest's Tale.

Published
College English 25 (1964): 566-71.

Description
Uses principles of Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of form to analyze NPT, commenting on aspects of its progressions (syllogistic, inverted, and repetitive), aspects of its genre conventions, and examples of its rhetorical ornamentation.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest's Tale
Style and Versification