'Synne Horrible': The Pardoner's Exegesis of His Tale, and Chaucer's
- Author / Editor
- Leicester, H. Marshall,Jr.
'Synne Horrible': The Pardoner's Exegesis of His Tale, and Chaucer's
- Published
- Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 25-50.
- Description
- Reviews Augustinian criticism of R. P. Miller, B. F. Huppé, Lee W. Patterson, G. L. Kittridge, and D. W. Robertson. The Pardoner criticizes the church that licenses him for its follies and corruption. His performance is considered a "social gaffe, a joke in bad taste," and he is "the first exegetical critic of his own tale."
- Alternative Title
- Acts of Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.