{"product_id":"disseminal-chaucer","title":"Disseminal Chaucer","description":"\u003cp\u003eChaucer's \u003ci\u003eThe Nun's Priest's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most popular of \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. It is only 646 lines long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an \u003ci\u003eexemplum\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nun's Priest's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nun's Priest's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is Chaucer's premier work of self-parody, an ironic \u003ci\u003eapologia pro sua arte\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Peter Travis opens the Pandora's box that is Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eThe Nun's Priest's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e by asking a disarmingly simple question about its genre. He proceeds to detail, bri\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services Univ of Notre Dame du Lac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52653809893743,"sku":"9780268042356","price":281.6,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0268042357.jpg?v=1770743473","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/disseminal-chaucer","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}