Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts [electronic resource] /
Dyke, Carolynn Van.editor.
Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Content""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: In Hir Corages: Chaucer and the Animal Real""; ""Part I The Natural Creature""; ""1. Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England""; ""2. Feathering the Text""; ""3. Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in ""The Pardoner's Tale""""; ""Part II Animal Lessons""; ""4. Chaucer's Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in ""The Knight's Tale,"" ""The Squire's Tale,"" and The Parliament of Fowls""; ""5. Foiled by Fowl: The Squire's Peregrine Falcon and the Franklin's Dorigen""
""6. That Which Chargeth Not to Say: Animal Imagery in Troilus and Criseyde""""Part III Becoming-Animal""; ""7. Avian Hybridity in ""The Squire's Tale"": Uses of Anthropomorphism""; ""8. Reimagining Natural Order in ""The Wife of Bath's Prologue""""; ""9. Contemplating Finitude: Animals in The Book of the Duchess""; ""Part IV Contested Boundaries""; ""10. Animal Agency, the Black Knight, and the Hart in The Book of the Duchess""; ""11. ""A Beest May Al His Lust Fulfille"": Naturalizing Chivalric Violence in Chaucer's ""Knight's Tale""""
""12. A Fourteenth-Century Ecology: ""The Former Age"" with Dindimus""""Part V Cross-Species Discourse""; ""13. Chaucer's Chauntecleer and Animal""; ""14. Talking Animals, Debating Beasts""; ""15. Species or Specious? Authorial Choices and The Parliament of Fowls""; ""16. Chaucer's Cuckoo and the Myth of Anthropomorphism""; ""Afterword: Gender, Genre, Genus""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Literature, Medieval.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British literature.
Anthropology.
Literature-History and criticism.
Medieval Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Anthropology.
Literary History.