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Disseminal Chaucer
2009,2010
Overview
Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of the most
popular of The Canterbury Tales . It is only 646 lines
long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an
exemplum , a satire, and other genres. There have been
countless attempts to articulate the \"real\" meaning of the tale,
but it has confounded the critics. Peter Travis contends that part
of the fun and part of the frustration of trying to interpret the
tale has to do with Chaucer's use of the tale to demonstrate the
resistance of all literature to traditional critical practices. But
the world of The Nun's Priest's Tale is so creative and so
quintessentially Chaucerian that critics persist in writing about
it.
No one has followed the critical fortunes of Chauntecleer and
his companions more closely over time than Peter Travis. One of the
most important contributions of this book is his assessment of the
tale's reception. Travis also provides an admirable discussion of
genre: his analysis of parody and Menippean satire clarify how to
approach works such as this tale that take pleasure in resisting
traditional generic classifications. Travis also demonstrates that
the tale deliberately invoked its readers' memories of specific
grammar school literary assignments, and the tale thus becomes a
miniaturized synopticon of western learning. Building on these
analyses and insights, Travis's final argument is that The
Nun's Priest's Tale is Chaucer's premier work of self-parody,
an ironic apologia pro sua arte . The most profound matters
foregrounded in the tale are not advertisements of the poet's
achievements. Rather, they are poetic problems that Chaucer
wrestled with from the beginning of his career and, at the end of
that career, wanted to address in a concentrated, experimental, and
parapoetic way.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
9780268042356, 0268042357, 9780268093723, 0268093725
