Narrative Speed in the "Pardoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Harrington, David V.
Narrative Speed in the "Pardoner's Tale."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 50-59.
- Description
- Rejects attempts to read PardT as an example of psychological realism and reads it instead as a "rapidly progressing discourse" that results from "special use of rhetorical devices for the impression of speed." The Tale conveys to its audience a sense of the contradictions that inhere in "normal experience."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
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