The Wisdom of the Cock
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
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.