Environment, Landscape, and Nature in "The Merchant's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Estes, Heidi.
Environment, Landscape, and Nature in "The Merchant's Tale."
- Published
- In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
- Physical Description
- [13 pp.]
- Description
- Explores the "complications" involved in defining "environment," "landscape," and "nature" in MerT, and views the narrative through an "ecocritical" lens, describing the critical method and showing that in the Tale "literary devices revolving around water, stone, vegetation, and animals repeatedly undercut the meanings their speakers apparently intend." Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading.
- Alternative Title
- The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
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