Chaucer and the Politics of Nature
- Author / Editor
- Kiser, Lisa J.
Chaucer and the Politics of Nature
- Published
- Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2001), pp. 41-56.
- Description
- Through the tree catalog and the "unassimilated voices of the lower birds" in PF, Chaucer records his awareness that distinctions between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman are "species-ist"--an awareness similar to modern environmental and ecological perspectives.
- Contributor
- Armbruster, Karla, ed.
- Wallace, Kathleen R., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.