'I Wol Thee Telle Al Plat': Poetic Influence and Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Aspinall, Dana E.
'I Wol Thee Telle Al Plat': Poetic Influence and Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- University of Mississippi Studies in English 11-12 (1993-95): 230-42.
- Description
- A psychoanalytic reading of the Pardoner that views him as one who struggles to escape the influence of his father-figure (God) and simultaneously to escape literary models posed in the Bible. Freud and Harold Bloom enable us to see the struggle between id and ego in the Pardoner and a parallel struggle in the Pardoner's efforts both to supersede and to reject his literary precurors.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.