Applies ecocriticism to one of the most canonical medieval British poets Examines the Canterbury Tales and Chaucer's rhetoric in novel ways

Highlights twenty-first century discussions within the environmental humanities of the Anthropocene

Autorentext

Shawn Normandin is Associate Professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

Klappentext

Applies ecocriticism to one of the most canonical medieval British poets Examines the Canterbury Tales and Chaucer's rhetoric in novel ways Highlights twenty-first century discussions within the environmental humanities of the Anthropocene

Inhalt

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 .