Cultural Symbols in Transition : Animal Lore in Late English and Early Scottish Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Honegger, Thomas.
Cultural Symbols in Transition : Animal Lore in Late English and Early Scottish Poetry
- Published
- Micrologus 8: 489-509, 2000.
- Description
- Whereas Robert Henryson rarely uses animals for imagery or metaphoric comparisons (outside the allegory of "Morall Fabillis"), Chaucer "exploits the rich and variegated symbolic dimension" of references to animals, even while he avoids "explicit allegorical meaning." Honegger draws Chaucerian examples from CT and PF, focusing on examples in which animals are "not in the foreground" of the plots.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Canterbury Tales--General.