Chaucer's Pardoner: The Dialectics of Inside and Outside
- Author / Editor
- Harwood, Britton J.
Chaucer's Pardoner: The Dialectics of Inside and Outside
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 67 (1988): 409-22.
- Description
- Chaucer's Pardoner is the ultimate "confidence man," a mask layered over the persona of the character and the authorial voice. Yet, his very distance from the other pilgrims provides him a kind of opennes. For purposes of contrast, and to emphasize both the open and the closed nature of this character, Chaucer places him between the Host and the Summoner.
- For response, see the essay by Jane Chance entitled "Disfigured is thy face."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.