Hyperreal Blessings: Simulated Relics in The Pardoner's Tale

Author / Editor
Henson, Chelsea

Title
Hyperreal Blessings: Simulated Relics in The Pardoner's Tale

Published
Quidditas 33 (2012): 59-78.

Description
Viewed in light of Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation," the Pardoner's relics are simulacra, which allows Chaucer to question their "realness." The textuality of PardT (and CT as a whole) is to be read as a hyperreality.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale