Who Is Afraid of the Pardoner?
- Author / Editor
- Reed, Shannon L.
Who Is Afraid of the Pardoner?
- Published
- Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 5:109-16, 2000-2001.
- Description
- Assesses critical responses to the Host's verbal assault on the Pardoner at the end of PardT, identifying the common assumption that the Host fears the Pardoner's sexuality. Such readings are complicitous in the "abjection" of the Pardoner and thereby fail to counteract underlying phobia(s).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.