Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer's "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Runstedler, Curtis.
Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer's "Canon's Yeoman's Tale."
- Published
- Curtis Runstedler. Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 89-129.
- Description
- Explores the "moral value for Chaucer's audience" of CYPT and articulates "alchemical connections" elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman's final rejection of alchemy as evidence of Chaucer's disclosure of "the misuse of power and human intellect and the impact of moral blindness."
- Alternative Title
- Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale