The Nun's Priest's Morality and the Medieval Attitude Toward Fable.
- Author / Editor
- Manning, Stephen.
The Nun's Priest's Morality and the Medieval Attitude Toward Fable.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 59 (1960): 403-16.
- Description
- Acknowledging NPT to be "a rhetorical tour de force," assesses implications of its status as a "fable," surveying medieval commentaries on the genre, particularly its ability to teach and/or delight, and commenting on the morality the Nun's Priest enjoins good men to find in his tale. Suggests that Chaucer was "poking fun" at those who thought writers must provide edifying justifications for their works.
- Contributor
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 59 (1960)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale