'Make a Mark That Shows': Orphean Song, Orphean Sexuality, and the Exile of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Calabrese, Michael A.
'Make a Mark That Shows': Orphean Song, Orphean Sexuality, and the Exile of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Viator 24 (1993): 269-86.
- Description
- Genius's discourse on Orpheus in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" provides a vocabulary with which to address the sexuality of Chaucer's Pardoner. Genius's views on language, law, homosexuality, and art illuminate similar issues in PardT, linking procreation and writing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.