Cynicism and the Anal Erotics of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Stockton, Will.
Cynicism and the Anal Erotics of Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Exemplaria 20 (2008): 143-64.
- Description
- Stockton reads the Pardoner as a "cynic" in a Marxist context: one who "submit[s] fully to an ideological structure despite knowing better." Contrasts the Pardoner's queerness with his cynicism, asking,"how queer can the Pardoner be when he guards an ideological system he does not believe in?" Psychoanalytically diagnoses the Pardoner as an anal erotic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale