The Name of the Corpse: A Reading of 'The Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Steimatsky, Noa.
The Name of the Corpse: A Reading of 'The Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- Hebrew Unviersity Studies in Literature and the Arts 15 (1987): 36-43.
- Description
- PardT contains a series of mirror paradoxes: the rioters' quest to slay Death becomes Death's quest to slay them; the Old Man claims he cannot find Death but directs the rioters to it; and the rioters' success in their quest proves to be their failure. Likewise, the Pardoner's rhetorical performance is an attempt to mask his eunuchry from the pilgrims but actually exposes it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.