Chaucerian Ecopoetics Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales

Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text combines ecocriticism with rea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Normandin, Shawn. autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:The New Middle Ages.
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38044596*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Chaucer and Ecopoetics
  • 2. Ecophobia and the Knight's Tale
  • 3. Nocturnal Ecologies: Metaphor in the Miller's Tale and the Reeve's Tale
  • 4. Iterability, Anthropocentrism, and the Franklin's Tale
  • 5. The Unnatural Personifications of the Physician's Tale
  • 6. Ruminating On and In the Monk's Tale. .