Carnival Confession : The Archpoet and Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Sammel, Rebecca E.
Carnival Confession : The Archpoet and Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Beate Mùˆller, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, no. 19 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 169-90.
- Series
- Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, no. 19.
- Description
- In its carnivalized parody of the sacrament of confession, the "calculated self-portrait" of the Archpoet's "Estuans intrinsecus" foreshadows PardPT. Each speaker creates a "mythopoeia of self" by manipulating sacred topoi; the Pardoner draw his topoi from the tradition of preaching, ars praedicandi.
- Alternative Title
- Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.