Chaucerian Ecopoetics

Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales

Paperback Engels 2019 9783030080204
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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 reading techniques associated with deconstruction, to provide innovative interpretations of the General Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Physician's Tale, and the Monk's Tale. In stressing the importance of rhetorical nuance and literary form, Chaucerian Ecopoetics enables readers to better understand the ideological prehistory of today's environmental crisis.

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ISBN13:9783030080204
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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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.-&nbsp; 6. Ruminating On and In the Monk’s Tale. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<div>&nbsp;</div>

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