Chaucer's Paraprosdokian Rhetoric and the Reading of the "Prioress's Tale."

Author / Editor
Witalisz, Władysław.

Title
Chaucer's Paraprosdokian Rhetoric and the Reading of the "Prioress's Tale."

Published
Władysław Witalisz and Ewa Rusek, eds. Across Borders: Cultural and Linguistic Shifts in the 21st Century (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 63-73.

Description
Reads the GP description of the Prioress as an ironic frame for PrT, concluding that they combine as an "exercise in depicting and ridiculing popular anti-Semitism rather than condoning it."

Contributor
Witalisz, Władysław, ed.
Rusek, Ewa, ed.

Alternative Title
Across Borders: Cultural and Linguistic Shifts in the 21st Century.

Chaucer Subjects
SAC 45:137