Intention and the Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Richardson, Janette.
Intention and the Pardoner
- Published
- Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 85-95.
- Description
- Rhetoric is the Pardoner's mode of existence, but, despite his success with rural audiences, evil intentions negate his moral persuasiveness in the eyes of the pilgrims and the modern reader.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.