Medieval Sign Theory and Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale': Modes of Reading and Manipulation'
- Author / Editor
- Pigg, Daniel F.
Medieval Sign Theory and Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale': Modes of Reading and Manipulation'
- Published
- Tennessee Philological Bulletin 29 (1992): 15-23.
- Description
- Placed in the context of medieval sign theory, SumT becomes a satire on reading and interpretation. The humor of the friar in the Tale depends upon seeing him as an interpreter who overlooks the literal sense of signs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.