Some Notes on the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Kanno, Masahiko.
Some Notes on the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Bulletin of the Aichi University of Education (Humanities) 43 (1994): 1-13.
- Description
- Friar John is guilty of the sin of gluttony, which he discusses. Diction relating to foodstuffs recurs throughout SumT, as does "in-and-out" imagery, culminating in scatological diction that reflects John's degraded state of mind.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.