Vile Affections: Medieval Literature in "Reprobum sensus traditus."
- Author / Editor
- Murphy, Kevin M.
Vile Affections: Medieval Literature in "Reprobum sensus traditus."
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01(E) (2018): n.p.
- Description
- Includes discussion of how Chaucer "lays bare . . . [h]ow language and other signs may be adopted to obscure the patently obvious,” arguing that the Pardoner's "constant insistence on corporeal language and imagery always returns the reader to the source and site of sexual disgust: the Pardoner's anomalous body."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale