Fiction's Truths: False Confessions from the "Roman de Renart" to Chaucer's Pardoner.

Author / Editor
Matukhin, Max.

Title
Fiction's Truths: False Confessions from the "Roman de Renart" to Chaucer's Pardoner.

Published
Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.08(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed February 1, 2025).

Physical Description
289 pp.

Description
Explores how "false confessions and sermons" in late medieval literature "investigat[e] the boundaries between truthfulness and falsehood, literature and reality, the profane and the sacred." Includes discussion of PardPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Pardoner and His Tale