The Nun's Priest's Fable.

Description: Identifies a variety of tones in NPT, identifying interplay among the voice of the "rhetor," a "sermonizing" voice, and the outlook of a "sophisticated fabulist," exploring the "quality of their combination" by observing their relations with traditional fables, school exercises, and moralizations, and explaining how their shifts and tensions generate comedy, irony, and serious message.