'Lo How I Vanysshe': The Pardoner's War Against Signs

Author / Editor
Williams, David.

Title
'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.