Chaucerian Ecopoetics Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales /

• Main Author: Normandin, Shawn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .