'Lo How I Vanysshe': The Pardoner's War Against Signs
- Author / Editor
- Williams, David.
'Lo How I Vanysshe': The Pardoner's War Against Signs
- Published
- Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 143-73 and 218-21.
- Description
- Williams assesses the Pardoner's abuses of a wide range of signs, including words, relics, and the sacrament of the Eucharist, arguing that the Pardoner is "antisemiotic" and perverse in his privileging of signs over what they signify.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.