Intention and the Pardoner

Author / Editor
Richardson, Janette.

Title
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.