Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kruger, Steven F.
Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 6 (1994): 115-39.
- Description
- Through a historically situated investigation of the Pardoner's possible homeosexuality and its relation to language in PardPT, modern readers can resist Chaucer's (possibly) homophobic intentions, reclaiming and even celebrating the Pardoner's disruption of the heterosexual constructions of medeival society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.