Kissing the Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Kissing the Pardoner
- Published
- PMLA 107 (1992): 1143-56.
- Description
- Reads the kiss between the Pardoner and the Host at the end of PardT as a challenge to "the repressive binaries of a hermeneutical model based on heterosexual reproduction." The Pardoner inverts dominant ideology, and the kiss brings to readers' consciousness its own participation in the "politics of inversion and perversion." For a response and reply, see Ann Barbeau Gardiner, "The Medieval Kiss"; and Glenn Burger, "The Medieval Kiss: Reply."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.