000351423 000__ 03989cam\a2200421\a\4500 000351423 001__ 351423 000351423 005__ 20210513125914.0 000351423 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000351423 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000351423 008__ 110519s2010\\\\inua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000351423 010__ $$z 2009038253 000351423 019__ $$a961505216$$a962693613$$a988409783$$a991940492 000351423 020__ $$a9780268093723$$q(electronic book) 000351423 020__ $$z9780268042356 000351423 020__ $$z0268042357 000351423 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn694144481 000351423 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10423325 000351423 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441000 000351423 035__ $$a351423 000351423 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000351423 05014 $$aPR1868.N63$$bT73 2010eb 000351423 08204 $$a821.1$$222 000351423 1001_ $$aTravis, Peter W. 000351423 24510 $$aDisseminal Chaucer$$h[electronic resource] :$$brereading The nun's priest's tale /$$cPeter W. Travis. 000351423 260__ $$aNotre Dame, Ind. :$$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$$cc2010. 000351423 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 443 p.) :$$bill. 000351423 500__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000351423 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000351423 5050_ $$aThe 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. 000351423 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000351423 520__ $$aChaucer'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. 000351423 60010 $$aChaucer, Geoffrey,$$d-1400.$$tNun's priest's tale. 000351423 650_0 $$aEnglish poetry$$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$$xHistory and criticism. 000351423 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aTravis, Peter.$$tDisseminal Chaucer.$$dNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010$$z9780268042356$$w(DLC) 2009038253$$w(OCoLC)351313248 000351423 8520_ $$bacq 000351423 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000351423 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 000351423 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441000$$zOnline access 000351423 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441000$$zOnline Access 000351423 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:351423$$pGLOBAL_SET 000351423 980__ $$aEBOOK$$aEBOOK 000351423 980__ $$aBIB 000351423 982__ $$aEbook 000351423 983__ $$aOnline