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935-941.Ĭavanaugh's 'Explanatory Notes' are exactly that. 'Explanatory Notes for The Nun's Priest's Tale.'

Brody states that 'one apparent truth about the tale is that it will not easily support one meaning… the tale is less about a particular moral in it than about the very existence of moral possibilities.Ĭavanaugh, Susan H. Brody claims that the tale is reflexive of the action of storytelling on the pilgrimage, and the responsibility of the listeners to extract truths from fictions. 33-47.īrody concentrates his study on the ways the narrator of the story keeps reminding his audience that they are, in effect, listening to a story-the line between truth and fiction. 'Truth and Fiction in the Nun's Priest's Tale.' Bloomfield sees it as a story of how 'virtu can outwit fortune.' He studies the epic conventions mocked in the tale, and concludes that the tale is about 'the subversion of wisdom and its reinstatement.'īrody, Saul Nathaniel. 70-82.īloomfield, classifying the NPT as a beast-fable claims it into the category of 'wisdom literature'-literature dedicated to teach the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the past. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. 'The Wisdom of the Nun's Priest's Tale.'Ĭhaucerian Problems and Perspectives. From La Bibliothèque Nationale de France.īloomfield, Morton W. Barthélemy l'Anglais, Le Livre des Propriétés des choses.įrance, L'Anjou, Maine XVe s. Annotated Bibliography for Chaucer's 'The Nun's Priest's Tale.'Ĭoq.

Geoffrey chaucer the nun's priest's tale