Chaucer's Pardoner and Host-On the Road, in the Alehouse
- Author / Editor
- Legassie, Shayne Aaron.
Chaucer's Pardoner and Host-On the Road, in the Alehouse
- Published
- SAC 29 (2007): 183-223.
- Description
- Combines psychoanalysis, ethnography, and "queer theory" to examine pilgrimage, travel, and specific locations as narrative devices that undermine and assert masculinities in CT, especially those of the Pardoner, the Host, and the Knight in the "alehouse scene" of Part 6. Female gender performance is not similarly destabilized by travel and location in Chaucer's poem. Legassie draws comparisons and contrasts from various pilgrimage accounts and from the Guild Hall memorandum concerning the John/Eleanor Rykener trial; also challenges notions of the "liminality" of travel.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale.