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 reading techniques associated with deconstruction, to provide innovative interpretations of the General Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Physician's Tale, and the Monk's Tale. In stressing the importance of rhetorical nuance and literary form, Chaucerian Ecopoetics enables readers to better understand the ideological prehistory of today's environmental crisis.
1. Introduction: Chaucer and Ecopoetics.- 2. Ecophobia and the
Knights Tale.- 3. Nocturnal Ecologies: Metaphor in the
Millers Tale and the
Reeves Tale.- 4. Iterability, Anthropocentrism, and the
Franklins Tale.- 5. The Unnatural Personifications of the
Physicians Tale.- 6. Ruminating On and In the
Monks Tale.
This volume offers much for the Chaucerian critic committed to or simply intrigued by ecocritical approaches to literature. Normandin makes & appreciated tales vital to our understanding not just of Chaucer's time period, but our own. (Susan Morrison, The Medieval Review, scholarworks.iu.edu, June 28, 2019)
Shawn Normandin is Associate Professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
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