Theology and Discourse in the 'Pardoner's Tale', the 'Parson's Tale', and the 'Retraction'
- Author / Editor
- Baumlin, Tita French.
Theology and Discourse in the 'Pardoner's Tale', the 'Parson's Tale', and the 'Retraction'
- Published
- Renascence 41 (1989): 127-49.
- Description
- PardT, ParsT, and Ret all treat the moral complexities of language. Applying a text from Timothy, quoted by both the Pardoner and the Parson, reveals that the Pardoner's discourse is barrren; the Parson's fruitful. Ret is the fruit of ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.