Ecocriticism and Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Douglass, Rebecca M.
Ecocriticism and Middle English Literature
- Published
- Studies in Medievalism 10: 136-63, 1998.
- Description
- Ecocriticism is "a discipline that examines (criticizes) the relationship of texts to literal and figurative environments." Douglass's test case is an examination of how metaphors of nature are used in KnT and MilT to set off the person of Emilye, the characters of Palamon and Arcite, and the youthful energy of Alisoun. Also explores how implied natural settings relate to the conventions of romance and fabliau.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.