Jargon Transmuted: Alchemy in Chaucer's "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph Edward.

Title
Jargon Transmuted: Alchemy in Chaucer's "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 22.03 (1961): 859.

Description
Reads CYPT as Chaucer's response to the "pretentiousness, perverseness, and confusion he found in alchemy," exploring the poet's knowledge of alchemical sources, the place of CYPT in CT (especially in juxtaposition with SNT), and the skill and irony of Chaucer's depiction.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman's and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary