Fear and Instinct in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Houwen, L. A. J. R.
Fear and Instinct in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale
- Published
- Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, eds. Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), pp. 17-30.
- Series
- Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, no. 6.
- Description
- Chauntecleer's responses to the fox in his dream and in his initial sighting of the beast are rooted in Aristotelian traditions of psychology and natural antipathy, here traced from their classical roots through their medieval adaptations. The presence of such erudite depictions of instinct and enmity in NPT heightens its "contrast between the animal and human."
- Contributor
- Scott, Anne, ed.
- Kosso, Cynthia, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.