De/Stabilizing Heterosexuality in the Pardoner’s Tale.

Author / Editor
Douib, Mohamed Karim.

Title
De/Stabilizing Heterosexuality in the Pardoner’s Tale.

Published
International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 3.4 (2021): 154-66.

Description
Claims that the "Pardoner's atypical sexuality is subversive of the medieval gender matrix and that his challenge to heteronormativity is ultimately encompassed and disarmed." The descriptions of the Pardoner in GP and PardPT disrupt "the medieval normative order," but his "containment and silencing" by the Host and Knight reinforce the status quo."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale