'Disfigured is thy face': Chaucer's Pardoner and the Protean Shape-Shifter Fals-Semblant (A Response to Britton Harwood)
- Author / Editor
- Chance, Jane.
'Disfigured is thy face': Chaucer's Pardoner and the Protean Shape-Shifter Fals-Semblant (A Response to Britton Harwood)
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 67 (1988): 423-37.
- Description
- Chaucer's Pardoner owes a debt to Jean de Meun's Fals-Semblant ("Roman de la Rose"), whose false-seeming depends on clothing. In PardT, clothing metaphors become symbols for the relationship between body and soul. The Pardoner's reliance on the outer body belies his apparent spirituality.
- Responds to the essay by Britton J. Harwood entitled "Chaucer's Pardoner: The Dialectics of Inside and Outside."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.