Chaucerian Ecopoetics Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Normandin, Shawn (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The New Middle Ages
• Θέματα: Literature, Medieval.; Literature-Philosophy.; Medieval Literature.; Literary Theory.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. .