Chaucer's Pardoner: Sex and Non-Sex

Author / Editor
Manning, Stephen.

Title
Chaucer's Pardoner: Sex and Non-Sex

Published
South Atlantic Bulletin 39.1 (1974): 17-26.

Description
Psychoanalyzes the oral imagery in PardPT (food, drink, swearing, the Eucharist, "taking in," aggressive speech, phallic tongues, kissing), arguing that it indicates the Pardoner's unconscious search for pardon.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale