The Narrative Art of the "Pardoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Bishop, Ian.
The Narrative Art of the "Pardoner's Tale."
- Published
- Medium Aevum 36.1 (1967): 15-24.
- Description
- Attributes the aesthetic success of the three-rioters account in PardT to Chaucer's suggestive "economy" of characterization and narrative and to the double perspective ("drunken fantasy" and "sober calculation") that irrevocably leads to death, which ironically could not be found when pursued. Includes comparisons with the narrative techniques of PrT and RvT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Reeve and His Tale