The 'Translatio' of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
The 'Translatio' of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Exemplaria 4 (1992): 411-28.
- Description
- The rhetorical trope 'translatio' subsumes metaphor, allegory,and irony, providing a basis for understanding how the Pardoner translates himself into his characters and the Old Man into the rioters. The Pardoner represents his own Otherness while resisting identification with these characters.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.