'My body to warente . . . ': Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Abdalla, Laila.
'My body to warente . . . ': Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner
- Published
- Jennifer C. Vaught, ed. Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 65-84.
- Series
- Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.
- Description
- Considers PardPT in light of Augustinian semiotic theory. Focus on the body in the Pardoner's materials signals the need to attend to the objects of signs, and the quarrel with the Host "renders impotent" the Pardoner's nominalist "attack on signification." PardPT reconfigures the Sophist question of whether a false person can tell a good tale, placing responsibility on readers to attend to all available signs.
- Alternative Title
- Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies