Chaucer and the Bible: Parody and Authority in the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]

Title
Chaucer and the Bible: Parody and Authority in the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Published
David H. Hirsch and Nehama Aschkenasy, eds. Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984), pp. 43-50.

Description
Examines Chaucer's skeptical pose concerning theological and biblical controversies of the fourteenth century: "glosynge," parody, biblical allusion in PardP, PardT, GP, CT, and TC.

Contributor
Hirsch, David H.,
Aschkenasy, Nehama,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.