Elmer Gantry, Chaucer's Pardoner, and the Limits of Serious Words
- Author / Editor
- Killough, George.
Elmer Gantry, Chaucer's Pardoner, and the Limits of Serious Words
- Published
- James M. Hutchisson, ed. Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism (Troy: N. Y.: Whitson Publishing, 1997), pp. 162-74.
- Description
- The Pardoner and Elmer Gantry are "charlatan preachers," who are "comic satirical types." Both characters "reveal their own very human limits" and exemplify their authors' concern with the inadequacy of serious words to convey truth.
- Contributor
- Hutchisson, James M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion