지배질서의 해체와 복원 : 초오서의 『면죄사의 이야기』 = Chaucer's Pardoner as a Disturber of the Existig Order

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The Pardoner in The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is famous for his being a figure mysterious, incomprehensible, inscrutable, wonderful, marvelous ; fallen, corrupt, unremediable ; and yet charming and fascinating. I present him in this paper, however, as a disturber of the existing order. His disturbance lies not in the literal, but in the symbolic, or verbal, dimension. Throughout his long prologue and tale, he vivaciously threatens, shakes, and hits the order of the 'here and now', political, religious, or what nut. In the epilogue, however, he eventually meets his 'fall' : the Host reveals his being a eunuch, which leads to the nullification of the power of his discourse, and the Knight, the public representative of the existing order in the Middle Ages, restores everything to the original state. What do you think of the creator of the Pardoner ? Of his having made a eunuch of him ? This paper attempts to provide a reasonable answer for those questions, relying mainly on the methodology of the Sociology of Literature.