Turned to Fables: Efficacy, Form, and Literary Making in the "Pardoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Lavinsky, David.

Title
Turned to Fables: Efficacy, Form, and Literary Making in the "Pardoner's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 50.3-4 (2015): 442-64.

Description
Argues for the effectiveness of the Pardoner's speech in light of his use of fables and exempla rather than "officium." PardT affirms the power of literature over that of the Pardoner's own duplicitous nature.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale