The Alchemy of Failure: Combining Facts and Fictions in Chaucer's "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Burt, Kathleen.
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