Usura Alone Not Understood? A Rhetorical Consideration of 'Usura' in 'The Cantos'

Author / Editor
Péti, Miklós.

Title
Usura Alone Not Understood? A Rhetorical Consideration of 'Usura' in 'The Cantos'

Published
Paideuma 30.3 (2001): 3-22.

Description
Includes discussion of PrT as one of several "possible intertexts" for Ezra Pound's "Usury Cantos." In PrT Chaucer presents usury as a defining characteristic of Jews, antithetical to Christian notions of virginity, and aligned with lust and the sterility of the Pardoner.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Prioress and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale