Of Course There's Something Queer About the Canon: A Reading of Chaucer's 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale' in Relation to the Alchemical Hermaphrodite

Author / Editor
Masson, Cynthea.

Title
Of Course There's Something Queer About the Canon: A Reading of Chaucer's 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale' in Relation to the Alchemical Hermaphrodite

Published
Dr. Faustroll and Cal Clements, eds. Pataphysica: 2. Pataphysica e Alcimia (New York: iUniverse, 2004), pp. 102-16.

Description
Describes the concept of "the alchemical hermaphrodite" and its sexual associations; then traces the concept and its figurative implications in CYPT, arguing that the relationships between the Canon and the Yeoman and between the canon and the priest "touch the queer."

Contributor
Faustroll, Dr., ed.
Clements, Cal, ed.

Alternative Title
Pataphysica: 2. Pataphysica e Alcimia.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale