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

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.

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 .