The "Second Nun's Tale": Language Politics and Translation.

Author / Editor
Barrington, Candace.

Title
The "Second Nun's Tale": Language Politics and Translation.

Published
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.

Physical Description
[7 pp.]

Description
Approaches SNPT as translations of source materials, assessing Chaucer's assignment of his early life of St. Cecilia to the Second Nun as narrator, the implications of rhyme royal, and the thematic and formal concerns of transformation, idleness, and religious orthodoxy. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.

Alternative Title
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification