The Pardoner as Huckster: A Dissent from Kittredge.
- Author / Editor
- Evanoff, Alexander.
The Pardoner as Huckster: A Dissent from Kittredge.
- Published
- Brigham Young University Studies 4.3-4 (1962): 209-17.
- Description
- Treats the Pardoner as a "foot-in-the-door salesman" who is confident in his own skills and believes that his "frankness is disarming." The "agonized sincerity" that George Lyman Kittredge perceived in lines PardT 6.916-18 is not "agonized" but merely apparent, and Pardoner's silence results from surprise and anger at the force of the Host's rejoinder.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale