The Wisdom of the Cock

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
The Wisdom of the Cock

Published
Jan Goosens and Timothy Sodmann, eds. Third International Beast Epic, Fable and Fabliau Colloquium, Munster 1979: Proceedings (Koln and Wien: Bohlau, 1981), pp. 340-55.

Description
Surveys several classical, oriental, and exegetical traditions of the symbolic or exemplary value of the cock, variously an emblem of wisdom, pugnacity, or stupidity. Chauntecleer of NPT is unusual in combining many qualities, for later literary roosters embody single values. Rowland concludes with comments on Herman Melville's story "Cock-a-doodle-doo!"

Contributor
Goosens, Jan,
Sodmann, Timothy,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Third International Beast Epic, Fable and Fabliau Colloquium, Munster 1979: Proceedings.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.