The Alchemy of Failure: Combining Facts and Fictions in Chaucer's "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Author / Editor
Burt, Kathleen.

Title
The Alchemy of Failure: Combining Facts and Fictions in Chaucer's "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale."

Published
South Atlantic Review 86, no. 1 (2021): 58-76.

Description
Anatomizes the theme and structures of failure in CYPT, contrasting the Canon's Yeoman and Chaucer-pilgrim as narrators, and tallying ways that failure dominates the narrative: failed science, failed rhetoric, failed comedy, failed moralizing, and failure to control self-narration.

Alternative Title
South Atlantic Review 86 (2021)

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale