Spiritual Gold: Verbal and Spiritual Alchemy in 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Canon's Yeoman's Tale'

Author / Editor
Beall, Joanna.

Title
Spiritual Gold: Verbal and Spiritual Alchemy in 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Canon's Yeoman's Tale'

Published
Medieval Perspectives 15.1: 35-41, 2000.

Description
Following the medieval rhetorical analysis that sees irony as a form of allegory, Beall finds that both CYT and PardT deal with the "supreme alchemy" (material alchemy in CYT, rhetorical alchemy in PardT) by which the profane is transformed into the sacred.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.