The Trickster Myth and Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Movshovitz, Howard Paul.
The Trickster Myth and Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 2768A.
- Description
- The contradictions surrounding the Pardoner are an important thematic element in PardT. The trickster figure found in mythology represents a figure that is supposed to embody contradictions. Viewing the Pardoner as such a trickster figure allows the reader to accept rather than deny the contradictions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.