Absolon, Taste, and Odor in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hatton, Thomas J.
Absolon, Taste, and Odor in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 7 (1971): 72-75.
- Description
- Summarizes the Scriptural tradition in which spiritual fame is associated with sweet tastes and good odors, and suggests that Absolon's association with their opposites in MilT reinforces his humiliation and his concern with "fame among men."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations