Inviting Tacit Agreement: 'The Pardoner's Tale' and its Modern Reception
- Author / Editor
- DuBruck, Edelgard E.
Inviting Tacit Agreement: 'The Pardoner's Tale' and its Modern Reception
- Published
- Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 103-13.
- Description
- After reviewing scholarly opinion of the Pardoner's character,DuBruck turns to the somewhat neglected exemplum of the rioters to analyze narrative speed and style, by which the Pardoner drives his text to an emphatic conclusion. DuBruck then analyzes elements of the two prologues (PardP and the first part of PardT) to discover why the tale itself has been less central in audience reception than the character of its teller has been.
- Alternative Title
- The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.