Word and Deed in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Kanno, Masahiko.

Title
Word and Deed in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature 5 (1990): 45-55.

Description
Examines the Host's malapropistic banter in the introduction to PardT and language in PardT and GP that helps delineate the character of the vicious Pardoner. Kanno discusses incongruity between word and deed, appearance and reality.
Reprinted in Kanno's Studies in Chaucer's Words (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1996), pp. 98-108.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.