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Disseminal Chaucer : rereading The nun's priest's tale / Peter W. Travis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Nun's priest's tale.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 p.)
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Travis reassesses Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale and its reception as a traditionally confusing and simple tale.
- Contents:
- The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius
- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica
- Close reading: beginnings and endings
- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor
- The noise of history
- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader
- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268093723
- 0268093725
- OCLC:
- 694144481
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