Usura Alone Not Understood? A Rhetorical Consideration of 'Usura' in 'The Cantos'
- Author / Editor
- Péti, Miklós.
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