Chaucer's Pardoner: Relics, Discourse, and Frames of Propriety

Author / Editor
Vance, Eugene.

Title
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.