Chaucer's Summoner's Tale: Flatulence, Blasphemy, and the Emperor's Clothes
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
Chaucer's Summoner's Tale: Flatulence, Blasphemy, and the Emperor's Clothes
- Published
- Studies in Philology 104 (2007): 455-70.
- Description
- SumT is not a hidden allegory, but a narrative that exploits characteristics of the fabliau to explore larger issues of morality and ethics. By focusing almost solely on the distribution of the "gift," critics have ignored most of the story and missed Chaucer's concern with the foundations of ecclesiastical claims of "authority."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale