Spiritual Gold: Verbal and Spiritual Alchemy in 'The Pardoner's Tale' and 'The Canon's Yeoman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Beall, Joanna.
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.