'The Augurye of Thise Fowles': Treacherous Birds in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Quinn-Lang, Caitlin.
'The Augurye of Thise Fowles': Treacherous Birds in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, eds. The Image of Nature in Literature, the Media, and Society (Pueblo, Colo.: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 1993), pp. 38-47.
- Description
- Examines the literary backgrounds of the birds in TC to argue that the birds "carry with them themes of treachery and unnatural and sorrowful love"; they help depict the "dubious nature of temporal love."
- Alternative Title
- The Image of Nature in Literature, the Media, and Society: Selected Papers, 1993 Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, March 11-13, 1993, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.