Chaucer's Pardoner: Relics, Discourse, and Frames of Propriety
- Author / Editor
- Vance, Eugene.
Chaucer's Pardoner: Relics, Discourse, and Frames of Propriety
- Published
- New Literary History 20 (1989): 723-45.
- Description
- Summarizes some medieval semantic theories that are helpful as an approach to the literature and suggests that the Pardoner by his transgressions calls attention both to the semiotics and to the ethics of truth-making processes in fourteenth-century ecclesiastical discourse.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.