The Pardoner's Voice, Disjunctive Narrative, and Modes of Effemination
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
The Pardoner's Voice, Disjunctive Narrative, and Modes of Effemination
- Published
- R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 411-44.
- Description
- Kelly re-considers the Pardoner's sexuality in light of biblical imagery, medieval medical lore, and fifteenth-century reception of PardT, arguing that implications of effeminacy in GP suggest neither homosexuality nor sterility but sexual insatiability.
- Alternative Title
- Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.